Chap. 36.] AETISTS WHO PAINTED WITH THE PENCIL. 253 



proper expression to the middle of the body. In his alle- 

 gorical picture of the People of Athens, he has displayed 

 singular ingenuity in the treatment of his subject; for in 

 representing it, he had to depict it as at once fickle, choleric, 

 unjust, and versatile ; while, again, he had equally to show its 

 attributes of implacability-^ and clemency, compassionateness 

 and pride, loftiness and humility, fierceness and timidity — 

 and all these at once. He painted a Theseus also, which was 

 formerly in the Capitol at Bome, a Naval Commander ^"^ wear- 

 ing a cuirass, and, in one picture, now at Ehodes, figures of 

 Meleager, Hercules, and Perseus. This last painting, though 

 it has been thrice struck by lightning, has escaped being 

 effaced, a circumstance which tends to augment the admira- 

 tion which it naturally excites. He painted an Archi- 

 gallus"^ also, a picture which the Emperor Tiberius greatly 

 admired. According to Deculo,^^ that prince had it shut up in 

 his chamber, the price at which it was valued being six 

 hundred thousand sesterces. 



Parrhasius also painted a Thracian Nurse, with an Infant 

 in her arras, a Philiscus,-'' a Father Liber"^ attended by Virtue, 

 Two Children, in which we see pourtrayed the careless-sim- 

 plicity of childhood, and a Priest attended by a Boy, with a 

 censer and chaplet. There are also two most noble pictures 

 by him ; one of which represents a Runner^^ contending for the 

 prize, completely armed, so naturally depicted that he has all 

 the appearance of sweating. In the other we see the Runner 

 taking off his armour, and can fancy that we hear him panting 

 aloud for breath. His ^neas, Castor, and Pollux, all represented 

 in the same picture, are highly praised; his Telephus also, 

 and his Achilles, Agamemnon, and Ulysses. 



Parrhasius was a most prolific artist, but at the same time 

 there was no one who enjoyed the glory conferred upon him by 

 liis talent with greater insolence and arrogance. It was in this 



23 The antithesis seems to require here the reading " inexorabilem," 

 instead of " exorabilem." 24 "Navarchum." 



35 The *' Chief of the Galli," or high priest of Cybele. 



26 See end of B. x. 



27 Possibly the person mentioned in B. xi. c. 9, or perhaps the Tragic 

 •writer of this name, mentioned in the present Chapter. 



28 Bacchus. 



29 "Hoplites." A runner in panoply, or complete armour, at the 

 Olympic tlaraes. 



