Judg 16:23 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 23. Unto Dagon their god ] Diodorus Siculus describes their god thus: τομενπροσωπονεχειγυναικοςτοδαλλοσωμαπαν ιχθους; "It had the head of a woman, but all the rest of the body resembled a fish." Dagon was called Dorceto among the heathens. Horace, in the following lines, especially in the third and fourth , seems to have in view the image of Dagon :- Humano capiti cervicem pictor equinam Pingere si velit; et varias inducere plumas, Undique collatis Inembris; ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne; Spectatum admissi risum teneatis amici? DE ART. POET., V. 1. "Suppose a painter to a human head Should join a horse's neck; and wildly spread The various plumage of the feather'd kind O'er limbs of different beasts, absurdly join'd; Or if he gave to view a beauteous maid, Above the waist with every charm array'd, Should a foul fish her lower parts infold, Would you not smile such pictures to behold?" FRANCIS.

‏ Judges 16:23

Verse 23. Unto Dagon their god] Diodorus Siculus describes their god thus: τομενπροσωπονεχειγυναικοςτοδαλλοσωμαπαν ιχθους; "It had the head of a woman, but all the rest of the body resembled a fish." Dagon was called Dorceto among the heathens.

Horace, in the following lines, especially in the third and fourth, seems to have in view the image of Dagon:-

Humano capiti cervicem pictor equinam

Pingere si velit; et varias inducere plumas,

Undique collatis Inembris; ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne;

Spectatum admissi risum teneatis amici?

DE ART. POET., V. 1.

"Suppose a painter to a human head

Should join a horse's neck; and wildly spread

The various plumage of the feather'd kind

O'er limbs of different beasts, absurdly join'd;

Or if he gave to view a beauteous maid, Above the waist with every charm array'd,

Should a foul fish her lower parts infold,

Would you not smile such pictures to behold?"

FRANCIS.