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Artists, who have transmitted these details in their works, 

 bestow wonderful encomiums upon Telephanes, the Phocaean, 

 a statuary but little known, they say, because he lived in Thes- 

 saly, where his works remained concealed ; according to their 

 account, however, he is quite equal to Polycletus, Myron, and 

 Pythagoras. They more particularly commend his Larissa, 

 his Spintharus, the pentathlete,^^ and his Apollo. Others, 

 however, assign another reason for his being so little known ; 

 it being owing, they think, to his having devoted himself to 

 the studios established by Kings Xerxes and Darius. 



Praxiteles, who excelled more particularly in marble, and 

 thence acquired his chief celebrity, also executed some very 

 beautiful works in brass, the Rape of Proserpine, the Catagusa,^'^ 

 a Father Liber, ^^ a figure of Drunkenness, and the celebrated 

 Satyr, ^* to the Greeks known as "Periboetos."^^ He also executed 

 the statues, which were formerly before the Temple^® of Good 

 Fortune, and the Venus, which was destroyed by fire, with 

 the Temple of that goddess, in the reign of Claudius, and was 

 considered equal to his marble statue of Yenus,^'^ so celebrated 

 throughout the world. He also executed a Stephanusa,^® a Spi- 

 lumene,^^ an (Enophorus,^° and two figures of Harmodius and 

 Aristogiton, who slew the tyrants; which last, having been taken 

 away from Greece by Xerxes, were restored to the Athenians on 



as having occurred at the siege of the city of the Oxydracae; according to 

 other historians, however, it is said to have taken place at a city of the 

 Malli.— B. 31 gge Note 1, above. 



22 KaTiiyovaa', a figure of Ceres, probably, " leading hack " Proserpine 

 from the domains of Pluto. Sillig, however, dissents from this interpre- 

 tation; Diet. Ancient Artists. 33 Qj- Bacchus. 



3* See Pausanias, B. i. c. 20. Sillig says, '* Pliny seems to have con- 

 founded two Satyrs made by Praxiteles, for thq,t here named stood alone 

 in the 'Via Tripodum' at Athens, and was quite different from the one 

 which was associated with the figure of Intoxication, and that of Bacchus." 

 — Diet. Ahcient Artists. 



^ " Much-famed." Visconti is of opinion that the Peposing Satyr, for- 

 merly in the Napoleon Museum at Paris, was a copy of this statue. Winck- 

 elmann is also of the same opinion. 



26 In the Second Region of the city. According to Cicero, in Verrero. vi., 

 they were brought from Achaia by L. Mummius, who took them from 

 Thespise, a.xj.c. 608. 3? g^e B. xxxvi. c. 4. 



28 A woman plaiting garlands. 



3^ A soubriquet for an old hag, it is thought. 



^^ A female carrying wine. 



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