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Leaena^^ of Amphicrates^^ is highly commended. The cour- 

 tesaii^° Leaena, who was a skilful performer on the lyre, and 

 had so become acquainted with Harmodius and Aristogiton, 

 submitted to be tortured till she expired, rather than betray 

 their plot for the extermination of the tyrants.^^ The Athe- 

 nians, being desirous of honouring her memory, without at 

 the same time rendering homage to a courtesan, had her re- 

 presented under the figure of the animal whose name she bore ;" 

 and, in order to indicate the cause of the honour thus paid her, 

 ordered the artist to represent the animal without a tongue. ^^ 



Bryaxis executed in brass statues of ^sculapius and Seleu- 

 cus;^* Bcedas^^ a figure in adoration ; Baton, an Apollo and a 

 Juno, which are in the Temple of Concord^^ at Eome. 



Ctesiiaiis^® executed a statue of a man fainting from his 

 wounds, in the expression of which may be seen how little 

 life remains •,^^ as also the Olympian Pericles,^'' well worthy of 

 its title : indeed, it is one of the marvellous adjuncts of this 

 art, that it renders men who are already celebrated even more 

 so. 



Cephisodotus*^^ is the artist of an admirable Minerva, now 

 erected in the port of Athens ; as also of the altar before the 



4s Or "Lioness." See B. vii. c. 23. 



*^ The reading is doubtful here. " Ipliicrates" and " Tisicrates" are 

 other readings. 



^° The same story is related by Athenseus, B. xiii., and by Pausanias. — E. 



51 Pisistratus and his sons, Hippias and Hipparchus. 



^' A lioness. 



" She having bitten off her tongue, that she might not confess. 



s* Hardouin has offered a plausible conjecture, that for the word *' Seleu- 

 cum," we should read " Salutem," as implying that the two statues exe- 

 cuted by Bryaxis were those of ^Esculapius and the Goddess of Health. — B. 



5^ Already mentioned as a son of Lysippus. 



*^ In the Eighth Region of the City. 



5^ This reading appears preferable to " Cresilas," though the latter is 

 supported by the Bamberg MS. 



^^ Ajasson quotes here the beautiful words of Virgil — "Et dulces mo- 

 rions reminiscitur Ai-gos " — " Remembers his lov'd Argos, as he dies." 



^ Dalechamps supposes that Pericles was here represented in the act 

 of addressing the people ; Hardouin conceives that this statue received 

 its title from the thunder of his eloquence in debate, or else from the 

 mighty power which lie wielded both in peace and war, or some of the 

 otlier reasons Avhich Plutarch mentions in the Life of Pericles. — B. 



^^ It is doubtful to which of the artists of this name he alludes, the 

 elder or the younger Cephisodotus, the son of Praxiteles. Sillig inclines 

 to think the former — Diet. Ancient Artists. 



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