1/4 plint's katueal histoey. [Book XXXIV. 



any greater attention than is observed in the rude figures of 

 more ancient times. 



Pythagoras of Ehegium, in Italy, excelled him in the figure 

 of the Pancratiast^ which is now at Delphi, and in which he 

 also surpassed Leontiscus.* Pythagoras also executed the statue 

 of Astylos,^ the runner, which is exhibited at Olympia ; that 

 of a Libyan boy holding a tablet, also in the same place ; and 

 a nude male figure holding fruit. There is at Syracuse a 

 figure of a lame man by him : persons, when looking at it, 

 seem to feel the very pain of his wound. He also made an 

 Apollo, with the serpent^" pierced by his arrows ; and a Player 

 on the Lyre, known as the Dicaeus/^ from the fact that, when 

 Thebes was taken by Alexander the Great, a fugitive successfully 

 concealed in its bosom a sum of gold. He was the first artist 

 who gave expression to the sinews and the veins, and paid 

 more attention to the hair. 



There was also another Pythagoras, a Samian,^^ who was 

 originally a painter, seven of whose nude figures, in the 

 Temple of Fortune of the passing day,^^ and one of an aged 

 man, are very much admired. He is said to have resembled 

 the last-mentioned artist so much in his features, that they 

 could not be distinguished. Sostratus, it is said, was the 

 pupil of Pythagoras of Rhegium, and his sister's son. 



According to Duris,^^ Lysippus the Sicyonian was not the 

 pupiP^ of any one, but was originally a worker in brass, and 

 was first prompted to venture upon statuary by an answer that 

 was given by Eupompus the painter ; who, upon being asked 

 which of his predecessors he proposed to take for his model, 

 pointed to a crowd of men, and replied that it was Nature hefself, 



" See Note 2 above. 



'^ There is a painter of this name mentioned in B. xrsv. c. 43. The 

 reading is extremely doubtful. 



^ Mentioned by Plato, De Legibus, B. viii. and by Pausanias, B. vi. - 

 c. 13. He was thrice victorious at the Olympic Games. lo Python. 



11 From the Greek word Ancaibg, "just," or "trustworthy." — B. 



12 Diogenes Laertius mentions a Pythagoras, a statuary, in his life of 

 his celebrated namesake, the founder of the great school of philosophy. — B. 

 Pausanias, B. ix. c. 35, speaks of a Parian statuary of this name. 



13 See Note 79 above. i* See end of B. vii. 



15 Cicero remarks, Brut. 86, 296, " that Lysippus used to say that the 

 Doryphoros of Polycletus was his master," implying that he considered 

 himself indebted for his skill to having studied the above-mentioned work 

 of Polycletus. — B. 



