184 PLIIfY's. NATURAL HISTORY. [Book XXXIV- 



also, of a youthful figure, wliicli was so much admired by 

 Brutus of Philippi, that it received from him its surname.'^ 



Theodorus of Samos,^ who constructed the Labyrinth,^ cast 

 his own statue in brass ; which was greatly admired, not only 

 for its resemblance, but for the extreme delicacy of the work. 

 In the right hand he holds a file, and with three fingers of the 

 left, a little model of a four-horse chariot, which has since 

 been transferred to Praeneste:^° it is so extremely minute, that 

 the whole piece, both chariot and charioteer, may be covered 

 by the wings of a fly, which he also made with it. 



Xenocrates^^ was the pupil of Ticrates, or, as some say, of 

 Euthycrates : he surpassed them both, however, in the number 

 of his statues, and was the author of some treatises on his art. 



Several artists have represented the battles fought by Attains 

 and Eumenes with the Galli ;^^ Isigonus, for instance, Pyro- 

 machus, Stratonicus, and Antigonus,^^ who also wrote some 

 works in reference to his art. Boethus,^* although more cele- 

 brated for his works in silver, has executed a beautiful figure 

 of a child strangling a goose. The most celebrated of all the 

 works, of which I have here spoken, have been dedicated, for 

 some time past, by the Emperor Vespasianus in the Temple of 

 Peace, ^^ and other public buildings of his. They had before 



' This, it is supposed, is the statue to which Martial alludes in his 

 Epigram, mentioned in Note 95 ahove. — B. 



^ There were two artists of this name, both natives of Samos. The 

 present is the elder Theodorus, and is mentioned by Pausanias as having 

 been the first to fuse iron for statues. He is spoken of by numerous an- 

 cient authors, and by Pliny in B. vii. c. 57, B. xxxv. c. 45, and B. xxxvi. 

 c. 19, where he is erroneously mentioned as a Lemnian. 



^ At Crete : Athenagoras mentions him in conjunction with Daedalus. 



10 See B. vii. c. 21. Hardouin thinks that this bears reference to the 

 conquest of the younger Marius by Sylla, mentioned in B. sxxiii. c. 5, 

 Miiller and Meyec treat this story of the brazen statue as a fiction. 



^^ Probably the same author that is mentioned at the end of B. xxxiii. 

 See also B. xxxv. c. 36. 



12 The Galli here spoken of were a tribe of the Celts, who invaded Asia 

 Minor, and afterwards uniting with the Greeks, settled in a portion of 

 Bithynia, which hence acquired the name of Gallo-Graecia or Galatia. — B. 



12 See end of B. xxxiii. Attains I., king of Pergamus, conquered the 

 Galli, B.C. 239, Pyromachus has been mentioned a few lines before, and 

 Stratonicus, in B. xxxiii. c. 55, also by Athenajus. 



1^ A native of Carthage. A work of his is mentioned by Cicero, In 

 Yerrem 4, 14, and in the Culex, 1. 66, attributed to Virgil. See also B. 

 xxxiii. c. 55. i* In the Eighth Region of the City. 



