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gas,"' Boethus,'^ and Mys.'^ Works of all these artists are still 

 extant in the Isle of Ehodes ; of Boethus, in the Temple of 

 Minerva, at Lindus; of Acragas, in the Temple of Eather 

 Liber, at Ehodes, consisting of cups engraved with figures in 

 relief of Centaurs and Bacchantes ; and of Mys, in the same 

 temple, figures of Sileni and Cupids. Representations also 

 of the chase by Acragas on drinking- cups were held in high 

 estimation. 



Next to these in repute comes Calamis.^" Antipater^^ too, it 

 has been said, laid, rather than engraved, ^^ a Sleeping Satyr 

 upon a drinking-bowl.®^ Next to these come Stratonicus®'* of 

 Cyzicus, and Tauriscus :^^ Ariston^^ also, and Eunicus,^' of 

 Mytilene are highly praised ; Hecatseus^^ also, and, about the 

 age of Pompeius Magnus, Pasiteles,^^ Posidoniu8^° of Ephesus, 

 Hedystratides^^ who engraved battle-scenes and armed war- 

 riors, and Zopyrus,^- who represented the Court of the Areopa- 



" His age and country are unknown. 



'8 From Pausanias we learn that he was a statuary and engraver on 

 plate, born at Carthage ; but Eaoul Rochette thinks that he was a native 

 of Chalcedon. He is mentioned also by Cicero, In Verrem, 4. 14, and in 

 the Culex, I. 66, ascribed by some to Virgil. 



73 His country is uncertain. According to the statements of Pausanias, 

 B. i. c. 28, he must have been a contemporary of Phidias, about Olymp. 

 84, B.C. 444. He is mentioned also by Propertius, Martial, and Statius. 



^^ His birth-place is unknown, but he probably lived about the time of 

 Phidias, and we learn from Pausanias that he was living when the plague 

 ceased at Athens, in b.c, 429. He is mentioned also by Cicero, Ovid, 

 Quintilian, Lucian, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. 



"^ Nothing further is known of this artist, 



^2 " Collocavisse verius quam caelasse." ^^ " Phiala." 



^* He lived probably about Olymp. 126; but his country is unknown. 

 He is mentioned by Athenaeus. See also B. xxxiv. c. 19. 



S' Nothing whatever is known of him, unless indeed he is identical with 

 the Tauriscus mentioned in B. xxxvi. c. 5. 



^^ Nothing is known of his age or country. He is also mentioned in 

 B. xxxiv. c. 19. 



^'' His age and country are unknown. See B. xxxiv. c. 19. 



88 Nothing further is known of him. See B, xxxiv. c. 19. 



89 See the end of this Book. 



^^ Beyond the mention made of him in B. xxxiv. c. 19, no particulars 

 relative to him are known. 



5^ Other readings of this name are " Laedus Stratiotes," " Ledis Thra- 

 cides," *' Hieris Thracides," and " Lidistratices." The Bamberg MS. has 

 "Hedys Trachides." Salraasius, Hardouin, and Sillig propose "Leostra- 

 tides," and Thiersch " Lysistratides," 



^* Nothing further is known of him. 



