Volume 1

A select collection of drawings from curious antique gems; most of them in the possession of the nobility and gentry of this kingdom; etched after the manner of Rembrandt / By T. Worlidge, painter.

  • Thomas Worlidge
Date:
1768
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A select collection of drawings from curious antique gems; most of them in the possession of the nobility and gentry of this kingdom; etched after the manner of Rembrandt / By T. Worlidge, painter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( >9 ) » N° 33. NERO. A Roman emperor, furnamed Claudius. He was moft infamous for luft, cruelty, rapine, facrilege, and ingratitude. He murdered his own mother, and by that means acquired the empire. He murdered alfo his brothers and relations; his wives O&avia and Poppaea, his preceptor Seneca, and his favourite poet Lucan. He fet fire to Rome, and then charged the fad on the Chriftians; for which he tortured and killed them publicly on the ftage in the day-time, and, ordering them to be wrapped up in coats befmeared with pitch, lighted up their bodies for torches in the night.— His foldiers, at length, revolting, chofe Galba for their emperor; on the hearing of which, Nero wanted fomebody to dif- patch him out of the way; but none could be found to do him that fa¬ vour, and he wanted courage to do it himfelf. He fled therefore to a cave, where he was afterwards found dead, but by what means he made his exit is not related. N° 34. A YOUNG HERCULES*. See N° 7. N° 35. ARISTOPHANES. A Grecian comic poet, born at Lindus, a town of Rhodes. He was the prince of the old comedy, as Menander was of the new; a perfect mafter of all the copioufnefs, acutenefs, and graces of attic eloquence. He wrote thirty-four comedies, eleven of which only remain : in one of them. * Cneii opus. D 2