188 Pliny's natural history. [Book XXXIV. 



Myagrus,^^ Polycrates, Polyidus/^ Pythocritus, Protogenes, a 

 famous painter, whom we shall have occasion to mention here- 

 after ;^' Patrocles, PoUis, Posidonius'^ the Ephesian, who was 

 also a celebrated chaser in silver ; Periclymenus,^ Philon,^^ 

 Symenus, Timotheus/- Theomnestus/' Timarchides,^ Timon, 

 Tisias, and Thrason.^^ 



But of all these, Callimachus is the most remarkable, on 

 account of his surname. Being always dissatisfied with him- 

 self, and continually correcting his works, he obtained the name 

 of " Catatexitechnos ;"^^ thus affording a memorable example 

 of the necessity of observing moderation even in carefulness. 

 His Laconian Female Dancers, for instance, is a most correct 

 performance, but one in which, by extreme correctness, he has 

 effaced all gracefulness. It has been said, too, that Calli- 

 machus was a painter also. Cato, in his expedition against 

 Cyprus,^^ sold all the statues that he found there, with the ex- 

 ception of one of Zeno ; in which case he was influenced, neither 

 by the value of the metal nor by its excellence as a work of 

 art, but by the fact that it was the statue of a philosopher. I 

 only mention this circumstance casually, that an example ^^ 

 so little followed, may be known. 



While speaking of statues, there is one other that should 

 not be omitted, although its author is unknown, that of Hei- 



*5 A native of Phocis, mentioned also by Vitruvius. 



*^ Also a Ditbyrambic poet ; mentioned by Diodorus Siculus. 



" In B. XXXV. c. 36. 



^■^ See B. xxxiii. c. 55. 



60 Mentioned by Tatian as having made tbe statue of Eutychis. See 

 Pliny, B. vii. c. 3. 



^'^ He executed a statue of Hepbsestion ; and an inscription relative to 

 him is preserved by Wheler, Spon, and Chisbull. 



•62 See B. xxxvi. c. 4. 



63 A native of Sardis ; mentioned by Pausanias. 



^ An Athenian, mentioned also by Pausanias. 



65 Strabo mentions some of his productions m the Temple at Ephesus. 



66 a Fritterer away of his works." He was also an engraver on gold, 

 and a painter. He is spoken of in high terms by Vitruvius, Pausanias, 

 and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. 



67 We have an account of Cato's honourable conduct on this occasion in 

 Plutarch. — B. See also B. xxix. c. 30. 



68 " Inane exemplum." Hardouin thinks that this is said in reference 

 to his neglect of the example set by his grandfather, Cato the Censor, who 

 hated the Greeks. See B. vii. c. 31. 



