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which they were taken. The Greeks, as we know from many fources, 
were extremely fond of parodies of every defcription, whether literary or 
pinitorial. The ihbjenil of our cut No. 9 is a good example of the parodies 
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Na. 9. A Greek Parudy. 
found on the Greek pottery; it is taken from a fine Etmfcan vafefe and 
has been fuppofed to be a parody on the vifit of Jupiter to Alcmena. 
This appears rather doubtful, but there can be no doubt that it is a 
burlefque reprefentation of the vifit of a lover to the object of his afpira- 
tions. The lover, in the comic mafk and coftume, mounts by a ladder to 
the window at which the lady prefents herfelf, who, it mutt be confeifed, 
prefents the appearance of giving her admirer a very cold reception. He 
tries to conciliate her by a prefent of what feem to be apples, inftead of 
gold, 
Given in Panofka, " Antiques du Cabinet Pou 
rtalbs," pl.