Chap. 10.] EXHIBITION OF PICTUEES BY THE EMPEROES. 233 



exhibition of pictures into such high estimation, by consecrating 

 an Ajax and a Medea*® before the Temple of Venus Genetrix.^' 

 After him there was M. Agrippa, a man who was naturally more 

 attached to rustic simplicity than to refinement. Still, however, 

 we have a magnificent oration of his, and one well worthy of 

 the greatest of our citizens, on the advantage of exhibiting in 

 public all pictures and statues ; a practice which would have 

 been far preferable to sending them into banishment at our 

 country-houses. Severe as he was in his tastes, he paid the 

 people of Cyzicus twelve hundred thousand sesterces for two 

 paintings, an Ajax and a Venus. He also ordered small paint- 

 ings to be set in marble in the very hottest part of his Warm 

 Baths f^ where they remained until they were removed a short 

 time since, when the building was repaired. 



CHAP. 10. WHAT PICTURES THE EMPEEOES HAVE EXHIBITED 



IN PUBLIC. 



The late Emperor Augustus did more than all the others ; 

 for he placed in the most conspicuous part of his Forum, two 

 pictures, representing War and Triumph. ^^ He also placed in 

 the Temple of his father,^" Caesar, a picture of the Castors,®^ 

 and one of Victory, in addition to those which we shall men- 

 tion in our account of the works of the different artists.®^ He 

 also inserted two pictures in the wall of the Curia®^ which 

 he consecrated in the Comitium i^ one of which was a Nemea^ 

 seated upon a lion, and bearing a palm in her hand. Close to 



56 See B. vii. c. 39. 



5' We have had this Temple referred to in B. ii. c. 23, B. vii. c. 39, 

 B. viii. c. 64, and B. ix. c. 57 : it is again mentioned in the fortieth Chap- 

 ter of this Book, and in B. xxxvii. c. 5. — B. 



5*> In the " Vaporarium," namely.— B. The Thermae of Agrippa were 

 in the Ninth Region of the City. 



52 According to Hardouin, this was done after the battle of Actium, in 

 which Augustus subdued his rival Antony. — B. 



6<^ By adoption. The Temple of Julius Csesar was in the Forum, in the 

 Eighth Region of the City. 



61 See B. vii. c. 22, B. x. c. 60, and B. xxxiv, c. 11. 



62 In Chapter 36 of this Book.— B. 



63 See B. vii. cc. 45, 54, 60, and B. xxxiv. c. 11. 



^ See B. vii. c. 54, B. xv. c. 29, B. xxxiii. c. 6, and B. xxxiv. c. 11. 



65 This was the personification of the Nemean forest in Peloponnesus, 

 where Hercules killed the lion, the first of the labours imposed upon him 

 by Eurystheus. — B. 



