264 PLINT's IS^ATUEAL HTSTORT. [Boolc XXXV. 



though at the point of death, has all the appearance of being 

 aware of it, and of being in dread lest the child should suck 

 blood in place of milk from, her exhausted breast : this picture 

 Alexander the Great ordered to be transferred to Pella, his 

 native place. Aristides also painted a Battle with the Per- 

 sians, a picture which contained one hundred figures, for each 

 of which he was paid at the rate of ten minse by Mnason, the 

 tyrant of Elatea.^^ He also painted Chariots with four horses 

 in full career ; a Suppliant, which almost speaks , Huntsmen 

 with game ; Leontion, the mistress of Epicurus :, the Anapau- 

 oraene,^° a damsel pining to death from love for her brother ; 

 a Father Liber*^ also, and an Artamene, two fine pictures now 

 to be seen in the Temple of Ceres^^ at Eome ; a Tragedian and 

 a Child, in the Temple of Apollo,^^ a picture which has lost its 

 beauty, owing to the unskilfulness of the painter to whom M. 

 Junius, the praetor, entrusted the cleaning of it, about the 

 period of the Apollinarian Games.^* There was also to be 

 seen, in the Temple of Faith, in the Capitol, a picture of his, 

 representing an Aged Man giving instructions t-o a Child on 

 the lyre. He executed also a painting of an Invalid, upon 

 which endless encomiums have been lavished. Indeed, so great 

 was the excellence of this artist, that King Attains, it is said, 

 purchased one picture of his at the price of one hundred 

 talents. 



At the same period^^ flourished Protogenes, as already stated. 

 He was a native of Caunus,^^ a place held in subjection by the 

 Bhodians. Great poverty in his early days, and extreme 

 application to his art, were the causes of his comparative un- 

 productiveness. It is not known with certainty from whom 

 he received his instruction in the art : indeed some say that he 

 was only a ship-decorator down to his fiftieth year ; a proof of 



^9 See B. iv. c. 12. 



90 Meaning, "Her who has ceased" to live. The reference is to Byblis, 

 who died of love for her brother Caunus. See Ovid's Metam. B. ix. 1. 

 455, et seq. 



^' Or Bacchus. Already mentioned in Chapter 8 of this Book, in refe- 

 rence to the Eoman general Mummius. 



9^ In the Eleventh Kegion of the City. 



9'^ In the Tenth Region of the City. '^^ Celebrated on the 3rd of Jiily. 



9^ In reference to the age of Apelles, whom he is supposed to have sur- 

 vived. 



^3 In Caria, near to Lycia. Suidas says that he was born at Xanthus 

 in Lycia. 



