Chap. 36.] ARTISTS WKO PAINTED WITH THE PENCIL. 261 



brated in certain Greek lines/^ which, though they have out- 

 lived it, have perpetuated its fame.^^ The lower part of the 

 picture having become damaged, no one could be found to 

 repair it ; and thus did the very injury which the picture had 

 sustained, redound to the glory of the artist. Time, however, 

 and damp at last effaced the painting, and Nero, in his reign, 

 luid it replaced by a copy, painted by the hand of Dorotheus.^^ 

 Apelles also commenced another Yenus for the people of Cos,'^ 

 which would have outshone even the former one ; but death 

 invidiously prevented its completion, nor could any one be 

 found to complete the work in conformity with the sketches of 

 the outline. He painted also, in the Temjjle of Diana at 

 Ephesus, Alexander the Great wielding the Thunderbolts, a 

 picture for which he received twenty talents of gold. The 

 fingers have all the appearance of projecting from the surface, 

 and the lightning seems to be darting from the picture. 

 And then, too, let the reader bear in mind that all these works 

 were executed by the aid of four^ colours only. The price 

 paid in golden coin for this picture was ascertained by weight," 

 there being no specific sum agreed upon. 



He also painted a Procession of the Megabyzus,''^ the priest 

 of Diana at Ephesus ; and a Clitus''^ on Horseback, hasten- 

 ing to the combat, his Armour-bearer handing him his helmet 

 at his command. How many times he painted Alexander and 

 Philip, it would be quite superfluous to attempt to enumerate. 

 At Samos, there is a Habron^^ by him, that is greatly admired ; 

 at Ehodes a Menander,'* king of Curia, and an Anc^us ;"" at 



67 There are several Epigrams descriptive of it in the Greek Anthology. 



^ This,^ probably, is the meaning of " Tali opere dum laudatur victo sed 

 illustrato,"_ words which have given much trouble to the commentators. 



^^ Nothing further seems to be known of him. 



'° " Cois." The first one was also painted for the people of Cos, by 

 whom it was ultimately sold to Augustus. 



'^ See Chapter 32 of this Book. That this is an erroneous assertion, 

 has been shoM'n in Note 78 above. 



" Probably the weight of the panel, frame, and ornamental appendages. 



■^3 This word was probably a title, meaning " Keeper of the temple." 

 Strabo tells us that the "megabyzi," or as he calls them, the <' megalo- 

 byzi," were eunuch priests in the Temple of Artemis, or Diana, at Ephesus. 



^^ The favourite of Alexander, by whom he was afterwards slain. 



"^5 Probably the name of a rich sensualist who lived at Argos. A son 

 of the Attic orator Lycurgus, one of the sophists, also bore this name. 

 _ '8 This name is supposed by Sillig to have been inserted erroneously, 

 either by Pliny, or by his transcribers. 



" Either the Argonaut of that name, who was killed by the Caledonian 



