268 PLirfs iJ'ATUEAL HI3T0ET. [Eook XXXV. 



til em ; and a Scylla, now at Eome in the Temple of Peace. 

 Ho painter ever worked with greater rapidity than Kicoma- 

 chus ; indeed it is said, that on one occasion having entered 

 into an engagement with Aristratus/^ the tyrant of Sicyon, to 

 paint within a given time the monument which he was raising 

 to the memory of the poet Telestis,^^ the artist only arrived a 

 few days before the expiration of the term ; upon which, the 

 tyrant was so angry that he threatened to punish him : how- 

 ever, in the few days that were left, Nicomachus, to the admi- 

 ration of all, completed the work, with equal promptitude 

 and success. Among his pupils, were his brother Ariston, his 

 son Aristides, and Philoxenus of Eretria, who painted for 

 King Cassander a picture representing one of the battles be- 

 tween Alexander and Darius, a work which may bear com- 

 parison with any. He also painted a picture in grotesque, 

 representing Three Sileni at their revels. Imitating the 

 celerity of execution displayed by his master, he introduced a 

 more sketchy style of painting, executed in a comparatively 

 off-hand manner. ^^ 



To these artists Nicophanes^^ has also been added, an ele- 

 gant and finished painter, to whom for gracefulness few can 

 be compared, but for a severe and tragic style far inferior to 

 Zeuxis or Apelles. Perseus also belongs to this period, a pupil of 

 Apelles, who dedicated to him his work on painting. Aristides 

 of Thebes had for pupils his sons Niceros and Ariston. Ey 

 the latter of these artists, there is a Satyr crowned with a 

 chaplet and holding a goblet : two of his pupils were Anto- 

 rides and Euphranor, of the latter of whom we shall have to 

 make mention again .^° 



CHAP. 37. VARIOUS OTHER KINDS OF PAINTING. 



"We must now, however, make some mention of those 

 artists who acquired fame by the pencil in an inferior style of 

 painting. Among these was Piraeicus, inferior to few of the 

 painters in skill. I am not sure that he did not do injustice to 



^s A contemporary of Philip of Macedon. 



" A ditbyrambic poet, born at Selinus. He flourished B.C. 398. Only 

 a few lines of his works remain. 



18 a Breviores etiamnum quasdam picturse compendiarias invenit." De- 

 lafosse is of opinion that paintings in gro tesque are probably meant. 



^^ His country is uncertain, but he probably lived about the time o£ 

 Apelles. 20 jn Chapter 40 of this Book. 



