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ject, telling him that he would get laughed at by the boys who 

 were there grinding the colours : so great was the influence 

 which he rightfully possessed over a monarch, who was other- 

 wise of an irascible temperament. And yet, irascible as he was, 

 Alexander conferred upon him a very signal mark of the high 

 estimation in which he held him ; lor having, in his admira- 

 tion of her extraordinary beauty, engaged Apelles to paint 

 Pancaste undraped,^^ the most beloved of ail his concubines, 

 the artist while so engaged, fell in love with her ; upon which, 

 Alexander, perceiving this to be the case, made him a present 

 of her, thus showing himself, though a great king in courage, 

 a still greater one in self-command, this action redounding no 

 less to his honour than any of his victories. For in thus con- 

 quering himself, not only did he sacrifice his passions in 

 favour of the artist, but even his aff'ections as well ; unin- 

 fluenced, too, by the feelings which must have possessed his fa- 

 vourite in thus passing at once from the arms of a monarch to 

 those of a painter. Some persons are of opinion that Pancaste 

 was the model of Apelles in his painting of Yenus Anadyomene.^^ 



It was Apelles too, who, courteous even to his rivals, first 

 established the reputation of Protogenes at Rhodes. Held as 

 he was in little estimation by his own fellow-countrymen, 

 a thing that generally^" is the case, Apelles enquired of him 

 what price he set upon certain finished works of his, which 

 he had on hand. IJpon Protogenes mentioning some very 

 trifling sum or other, Apelles made him an off'er of fifty talents, 

 and then circulated a report that he was buying these works 

 in order to sell them as his own. By this contrivance, he 

 aroused the Ehodians to a better appreciation of the merits 

 of their artist, and only consented to leave the pictures with 

 them upon their ofiering a still larger price. 



He painted portraits, too, so exactly to the life, that a fact 

 with which we are made acquainted by the writings of Apion 

 the grammarian seems altogether incredible. One of those 

 persons, he says, who divine events by the traits of the fea- 



^ Also kDOwn as " Campaspe," and •' Pacate." She was the favourite 

 concubine of Alexander, and is said to have been his first love. 



69 " Venus rising out of the waters." Athenseus says, B. xiii., that the 

 courtesan Phryne was his model, whom, at the festival of Neptune, he had 

 seen enter the sea naked at Eleusis. 



60 See Matthew xiii. 57 ; Mark yi. 4. "A prophet is not without ho- 

 nour, save in his own country.'' 



