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English: Full translated description of Plate 125: The action represented in the upper part of this plate belongs, without any doubt, to the theater of the ancients, and very probably to one of their tragedies. But so many of these dramas have perished, that it would be rash to positively assign such or such a scene among those which have come down to us. If, however, it is permissible to hazard some conjecture in this respect, it seems that the attitude, the disposition, the costume of the characters, adapt quite well to the scene of Oedipus The King, by Sophocles, in which Jocasta questions the shepherds of Polybius. The pale, greenish tint which covers the features of this woman indicates the horror inspired by the story of a great crime, by the discovery of a dreadful mystery.
As for the second scene, it belongs rather to the comic or satirical drama. These two characters are certainly two magicians of some barbarian nation, as they are represented on the stage. Both have a horse's feet: we see that the superstition which ascribes to the infernal powers the posterior extremities of a quadruped goes back to rather ancient traditions. There was, moreover, a Scythian nation, known under the name of Hippopods, to which these two bizarre beings may belong. One of the magicians holds a ewer in her hand, and the other carries a little mummy: this last emblem, wholly Egyptian, is not, however, in complete disagreement with the preceding hypothesis. Indeed, Colchos was an Egyptian colony, and this country, famous elsewhere in the annals of magic, belonged to Sarmatia: now Sarmatia has sometimes been confused with other parts of the shores of Pontus, such as Seythia or the land of the Hippopods (I). |
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