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For to fluctuate, is to move often, and tofs up and<br />
down in the manner of a wave. The Latins call it<br />
Criffare : for that fignifies an immodefl kind of dance,<br />
which we now term it Bargamalco, and which is never<br />
danced but by people in maks. Juvenal fpeaks of<br />
them thus--<br />
plaufuque probate,<br />
Ad terram tremulo defcendunt dune Pudica.<br />
The dancing girls in wanton motions bend,<br />
Shake as they rife, and with a clap defcend.<br />
Arnobius lays of thefe reprefentations, lib. 2, " Tht<br />
lafcivious multitude would run into the moft extra-<br />
411 vagant poilures of body, and caper, and fing, and<br />
"turn themfelves round in a circle, and at WI, by the<br />
" aEtivity of their loins, raife their pofteriors and<br />
"thighs into a fwimming elegancy of motion." You<br />
may confult, if you pleafe, on this occafion, the epiftle<br />
of Megara to Bacchis, concerning Thryallis. Perfius<br />
has this in view when, fpeaking of lafcivious verfes<br />
that raife a pruriency in the audience, he fays-<br />
--- cum carmina lumbum<br />
Intrant, & tremulo fcalpuntur ubi intima verfa.<br />
Such
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