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on the art of equitation." Daedalus,'* who is highly esteemed 

 as a modeller in clay, made two brazen figures of youths using 

 the body-scraper i'^ and Dinomenes executed figures of Pro- 

 tesilaiis"® and Pythodemus the wrestler. 



The statue of Alexander Paris is the work of Euphranor :''' it 

 is much admired, because we recognize in it, at the same mo- 

 ment, all these characteristics ; we see him as the umpire be- 

 tween the goddesses, the paramour of Helen, and yet the slayer 

 of Achilles. We have a Minerva, too, by Euphranor, at Eome, 

 known as the "Catulina," and dedicated below the Capitol, by Q. 

 Lutatius ;'^ also a figure of Good Success,'^ holding in the right 

 hand a patera, and in the left an ear of corn and a poppy. 

 There is also a Latona by him, in the Temple of Concord,^*' 

 with the new-born infants Apollo and Diana in her arms. He 

 also executed some brazen chariots with four and two horses, 

 and a Cliduchus^^ of beautiful proportions ; as also two colossal 

 statues, one representing Virtue, the other Greece f^ and a 

 figure of a female lost in wonder and adoration : with statues of 

 Alexander and Philip in chariots with four horses. Eutychides 

 executed an emblematic figure of the Eurotas,®^ of which it has 

 been frequently remarked, that the work of the artist appears 

 more flowing than the waters even of the river. ^* 



Hegias^^ is celebrated for his Mberva and his King Pyrrhus, 

 his youthful Celetizontes,^® and his statues of Castor and Pollux, 



'3 He is mentioned by Xenophon, according to whom, he dedicated the 

 brazen statue of a horse in the Eleusinium at Athens. He was probably 

 an Athenian by birth. 



"^^ Son of Patroclus, who is previously mentioned as having lived in the 

 95th Olympiad. He was a native of Sicyon, and flourished about b.c. 400. 

 Several works of his are also mentioned by Pausanias. 



'5 Or " strigil." See Note 19 above. "'^ The first Grecian slain at Troy. 



"^"^ Famous also as a painter. See B. xxxv. c. 40. — B. Paris, the son 

 of Priam, was known by both of these names. '^ Q. Lutatius Catulus. 



■73 " Bonus Eventus ;" Varro, de Be Bustica, B, i. c. 1, applies this term 

 to one of the deities that preside over the labours of the agriculturist. 

 His temple was situate near the Baths of Agrippa. — B. 



80 In the Eighth Region of the City. si gee Note 78, page 171. 



82 Pausanias, B. vi., speaks of a statue of Ancient Greece, but the name 

 of the artist is not mentioned. — B. 83 gee B. iv. c, 8. 



84 Brotero informs us, from Ficoroni, that there is a gem still in exist- 

 ence on which this design of Eutychides is engraved. — B. 



8^ Thiersch considers him to be identical with the elder Hegesias. He 

 is mentioned also by Pausanias, B. viii. c. 42. ^s gee Note 68, above. 



