182 Flint's natural histoet. [Book XXXIV. 



before the Temple of Jupiter Tonans :^'' Hegesias,^ for his 

 Hercules, which is at our colony of Parium.^^ Of Isidotus we 

 have the Buthytes.^^ 



Lycius was the pupiP^ of Myron : he made a figure repre- 

 senting a boy blowing a nearly extinguished fire, well worthy 

 of his master, as also figures of the Argonauts. Leochares 

 made a bronze representing the eagle carrying off Ganymede : 

 the eagle has all the appearance of being sensible of the impor- 

 tance of his burden, and for whom he is carrying it, being 

 careful not to injure the youth with his talons, even through 

 the garments.^^ He executed a figure, also, of Autolycus,^^ who 

 had been victorious in the contests of the Pancratium, and for 

 whom Xenophon wrote his Symposium ;^'* the figure, also, of 

 Jupiter Tonans in the Capitol, the most admired of all his 

 works ; and a statue of Apollo crowned with a diadem. He 

 executed, also, a figure of Lyciscus, and one of the boy Lagon,*^ 

 full of the archness and low-bred cunning of the slave. Lycius 

 also made a figure of a boy burning perfumes. 



"We have a young bull by Menaechmus,^^ pressed down be- 

 neath a man's knee, with its neck bent back :®^ this Menaech- 



8"^ Dedicated by Augustus on the Capitoline Hill, in the Eighth Region of 

 the City. 



ss Sillig distinguishes three artists of this name. 



83 See B. V. c. 40, and B. vii. c, 2. ^o The " Sacrificers of the ox." 



5^ The son also. 



^2 Martial expresses the same idea in his Epigram, B. i. Ep. 7; hut he 

 does not refer to this statue. — B. Two copies of this Ganymede are still 

 in existence at Eome. 



^^ Pausanias informs us, B. i. and B. ix., that he saw this statue in the 

 Prytanaeum of Athens. — B. Autolycus obtained this victory about the 

 89th or 90th Olympiad. 



8* It -was in honour of a victory gained by him in the pentathlon at the 

 Great Panathensea, that Callias gave the Symposium described by Xenophon. 



3^ Martial, B. ix. Ep. 51, where he is pointing at the analogy between 

 his poems and the works of the most eminent sculptors, probably refers to 

 this statue : — 



"Nos facimus Bruti puerum, nos Lagona vivum." — B. 

 The reading " Lagonem, " or "Langonem," certainly seems superior to 

 that of the Bamberg MS. — "Mangonem," a "huckster." 



^^ For some further mention of him, see end of B. iv, 



^^ Delafosse has pointed out the resemblance between this statue and one 

 of the works of Michael Angelo, representing David kneeling on Goliath, 

 and pressing back the giant's neck.— B, 



