diis; Indo quod dente politum
Tincta tegit roseo conchylis purpura fuco.
Haec vestis priscis hominum variata figuris
Heroum mira virtutes indicat arte.

It contained a description of some notable achievements in the first ages;
and a particular account of the Apotheosis of Ariadne, who is described,
whatever may be the meaning of it, as carried by Bacchus to heaven. The
story is said to have been painted on a robe, or coverlet; because it was
delineated upon a Pharos: that word being equivocal, and to be taken in
either sense. And here I cannot but take notice of the inconsistency of the
Greeks, who make Theseus a partaker in this history; and suppose him to
have been acquainted with Ariadne. If we may credit Plutarch[225], Theseus,
as soon as he was advanced towards manhood, went, by the advice of his
mother AEthra, from Troezen, in quest of his father AEgeus at Athens. This
was some years after the Argonautic expedition; when Medea had left Jason,
and put herself under the protection of this same AEgeus. After having been
acknowledged by his father, Theseus went upon his expedition to Crete;
where he is said to have first seen Ariadne, and to have carried her away.
All this, I say, was done after Jason had married Medea, and had children
by her; and after she had left him and was come to Athens. But the story of
Ariadne, in the above specimen, is mentioned as a fact of far older date.
It was prior to the arrival of Medea in Greece, and even to the Argonautic
expedition. It is spoken of as a circumstance of the highest antiquity:
consequently, [226]Theseus could not any ways be concerned in it.

There, is an account in Nonnus of a robe, or Pharos, which Harmonia is
supposed to have worn when she was visited by the Goddess of beauty. There
was delineated here, as in some above mentioned, the earth, and the
heavens, with all the stars. The sea, too, and the rivers, were
represented; and the whole was, at the bottom, surrounded by the ocean.

[227][Greek: Proten Gaian epasse mesomphalon, amphi de gaiei]
[Greek: Ouranon esphairose tupoi kecharagmenon astron.]
[Greek: Sumpherten de thalassan ephermose suzugi Gaiei,]
[Greek: Kai potamous poikillen; ep' andromeoi de metopoi]
[Greek: Taurophues morphouto kerasphoros enchloos eikon.]
[Greek: Kai pumaten para pezan eueklostoio chitonos]
[Greek: Okeanos kuklose peridromon antuga Kosmou.]

All this relates to a painting, either at Sidon or Berytus; which was