180 PLINt's NATUEAL HISTOET. pook XXXIV. 



Temple of Jupiter Servator,^- at the same place, to which, 

 indeed, few works are comparable. 



Canachus^^ executed a nude Apollo, which is known as the 

 " Philesian ;"^* it is at Didymi,^^ and is composed of bronze 

 that was fused at JEgina. He also made a stag with it, so 

 nicely poised on its hoofs, as to admit of a thread being passed 

 beneath. One^^ fore-foot, too, and the alternate hind-foot are 

 so made as firmly to grip the base, the socket being" so in- 

 dented on either side, as to admit of the figure being thrown 

 at pleasure upon alternate feet. Another work of his was the 

 boys known as the ''Celetizontes.'""'^ 



Chsereas made statues of Alexander the Great and of his 

 father Philip. Desilaiis®^ made a Doryphoros''" and a wounded 

 Amazon ; and Demetrius" a statue of Lysimache, who was 

 priestess of Minerva sixty-four years. This statuary also made 

 the Minerva, which has the name of Musica,'- and so called be- 

 cause the dragons on its Gorgon's head vibrate at the sound of 

 the lyre ; also an equestrian statue of Simon, the first writer 



^2 The " Deliverer." 63 The elder Canacbus, probably. 



^* The *' Lovely." Brotero says that this is believed to be the Flo- 

 rentine Apollo of the present day. It stood in the Temple at Didymi, 

 near Miletus, until the return of Xerxes from his expedition against Greece, 

 when it was removed to Ecbatana, but was afterwards restored by Seleucus 

 Nicator. 65 gee B. v. c. 31. 



66 "Alterno morsu calce digitisque retinentibus solum, ita vertebrato 

 dente utrisque in partibus ut a repulsu per vices resiliat." He seems to 

 mean that the statue is so made as to be capable of standing either on the 

 right fore foot and the left hind foot, or on the left fore foot and the right 

 hind foot, the conformation of the under part of the foot being such as to 

 fit into the base. 



6^ The following are the words of the original: "Ita vertebrato dente 

 utrisque in partibus." I confess myself unable to comprehend them, nor do 

 I think that they are satisfactorily explained by Hardouin's comment. — B. 



68 The "Riders on horseback." 



63 It is supposed by Sillig, Diet. Ancient Artists, tbat this is the same 

 person as the Cvesilas, Ctesilas, or Ctesilaiis, before mentioned in this Chap- 

 ter, and til at Pliny himself has committed a mistake in the name. 



'" A figure of a man "brandishing a spear." See Note 83 above. 



71 He is mentioned by Quintilian as being more attentive to exactness 

 than to beauty ; also by Diogenes Laertius, B. v. c. 85. Sillig supposes 

 that he flourished in the time of Pericles, Pausanias, B. i., speaks of his 

 Lysimache. 



"- The Athenians in their flattery, as we learn from Seneca, expressed a 

 wish to affiance their Minerva Musica to Marc Antony. His reply was, 

 that he would be happy to take her, but with one thousand talents by way 

 of portion. 



