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Theseus; with reference to which he remarked that the Theseus 

 of Parrhasius had been fed upon roses, but his own upon beef."^ 

 There are also at Ephesus some famous pictures by him ; an 

 Ulysses, in his feigned madness, yoking together an ox and a 

 horse ; Men, in an attitude of meditation, wearing the pal- 

 lium f' and a Warrior, sheathing his sword. 



At the same time, also, flourished Cydias;^^ for whose picture 

 of the Argonautae the orator Hortensius paid one hundred and 

 forty- four thousand sesterces, and had a shrine constructed 

 expressly for its reception on his estate at Tusculum.^^ There 

 was also Antidotus, a pupil of Euphranor, by whom there is, 

 at Athens, a Combatant armed with a shield ; a Wrestler, also ; 

 and a Trumpeter, a work which has been considered a most 

 exquisite production. 



Antidotus, as a painter, was more careful in his works than 

 prolific, and his colouring was of a severe style. His prin- 

 cipal glor}^ was his having been the instructor of IS'icias^' of 

 Athens ; who was a most careful painter of female portraits, 

 and a strict observer of light and shade,^" making it his es- 

 l)ecial care that the figures in his pictures should appear in 

 the boldest relief, liis works are, a Nemea, which was 

 brought from Asia to Home by Silanus, and was placed in 

 the Curia, as already stated;^' a Father Liber, ''^ in the 

 Temple^^ of Concord ; a Hyacinthus,''^ which the Emperor 

 Augustus was so delighted with, that he took it away with 

 him after the capture of Alexandria ; for which reason also it 

 was consecrated in the Temple'^ of Augustus by the Emperor 

 Tiberius ; and a Danae. At Ephesus, there is a tomb by 

 him of a megabyzus," or priest of the Ephesian Diana ; and at 



^^ " Came." Beef, according to Plutarch, was the flesh mentioned. 



^' The dress of tlie Greek philosophers, more particularly. 



^3 Born in the island of Cythnos, one of the Cyclades. He is supposed 

 to be the artist mentioned by Theophrastus, J)e liapid. c. 95. 



^^ It is supposed by Sillij^, from Dio Cassius, B. liii. c. 27, that tliis 

 painting was transferred by M. Vipsauius Agrippa, to tlie Portico of Ntp- 

 tune. 



^^ See Chapter 20 of this Book, where he is mentioned as having been 

 the first artist who used "usta" or burnt ceruse. From Pausanias we 

 learn that his remains were interred at Athens, in the road leading to tlie 

 Academia. «« Chiaroscuro. '^'^ In Chapter 10 of this Book. 



^^ Bacchus. ^9 In the Eighth Region of the City. 



'0 Spoken of by Pausanias, B. iii. c. 19. '''^ In tlie Forum at Eome. 



?■- See Chapter 36 of this Book, ^'ote 73, p. 261. 



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