234 plint's katueal HisxoEr. [Book XXXV. 



her is an Old Man, standing with a staff, and above his head 

 hangs the picture of a chariot with two horses. Nicias^ has 

 WTitten upon this picture that he ''inburned*'- it, such being 

 the word he has employed. 



In the second picture the thing to be chiefly admired, is the 

 resemblance that the youth bears to the old man his father, 

 allowing, of course, for the difference in age ; above them soars 

 an eagle, which grasps a dragon in its talons. Philochares^ 

 attests that he is the author of this work, an instance, if we 

 only consider it, of the mighty power wielded by the pictorial 

 art ; for here, thanks to Philochares, the senate of the Eoman 

 people, age after age, has before its eyes Glaucion and his son 

 Aristippus, persons who would otherwise have been altogether 

 unknown. The Emperor Tiberius, too, a prince who was by 

 no means very gracious, has exhibited in tlie temple dedi- 

 cated by him, in his turn, to Augustus, several pictures which 

 we shall describe hereafter.'' 



CHAP, 11. (5.) — THE AET OF PAINTrjfG. 



Thus much then with reference to the dignity of this now 

 expiring art. We have already^ stated with what single 

 colours the earlier artists painted, when speaking of these 

 pigments under the head of metals. The new modes of 

 painting which w^ere afterwards discovered, and are known as 

 ^*neogrammatea,"^the names of the artists, their different inven- 

 tions, and the periods at which these inventions were adopted, 

 will all be described when we come to enumerate the painters : 

 for the present, however, the proposed plan of this work 

 requires, that I should enlarge upon the nature of the several 

 colours that are employed. 



The art of painting at last became developed, in the inven- 



1 See Chapter 40 of this Book, 



2 " Inussisse ;" meaning that he executed it in encaustic. The Greek 

 term used was probably ENEK.AY2E. 



3 Hemsterhuys is of opinion that he was the brother of JEschines, the 

 orator, contemptuously alluded to by Demostlienes, Fals. Legat. Sec. 237, 

 as a painter of perfume pots. If so, lie was probably an Athenian, and 

 must have flourished about the 109th Olympiad. 



* In Chapter 40 of this Book. 

 ^5 In B. xxxiii. c. 39. He alludes to cinnabaris, minium, rubrica, and 

 sinopie. 

 ^ Meaning " new painting," probably. The reading, however, is doubtful. 



