Cliap. 40.] PAINTERS IN ENCAUSTIC. 27/ 



branches. Hence it was, that when L. Paulus .^milius, after 

 the conquest of Perseus,''^ requested the Athenians to send 

 him the most esteemed philosopher for the education of his 

 children, and a painter to represent his triumph, they made 

 choice of Metrodorus, declaring that he was eminently suited 

 for either purpose ; a thing which Paulus admitted to be the 

 case. 



Timomachus of Byzantium, in the time of the Dictator Caesar, 

 painted an Ajax^*^ and a Medea, which were placed by Caesar 

 in the Temple of Venus Genetrix, having been purchased at 

 the price of eighty talents ; the value of the Attic talent 

 being, according to M. Yarro, equivalent to six thousand 

 denarii. An Orestes, also by Timomachus, an Iphigenia in 

 Tauris, and a Lecythion, a teacher of gymnastics, are equally 

 praised ; a Noble Family also ; and Two Men clothed in the 

 pallium,^^ and about to enter into conversation, the one stand- 

 ing, the other in a sitting posture. It is in his picture, how- 

 ever of the Gorgon, ^^ that the art appears to have favoured 

 him most highly. 



Aristolaiis, the son and pupil of Pausias, was one of the 

 painters in a more severe style : there are by him an Epami- 

 iiondas, a Pericles, a Medea, a Theseus, an emblematical 

 l)icture of the Athenian People, and a Sacrifice of Oxen. 

 Some persons, too, are pleased with the careful style of 

 Mcophanes,^^ who was also a pupil of Pausias ; a carefulness, 

 liowever, which only artists can appreciate, as in other 

 respects he was harsh in his colours, and too lavish of sil f^ as 

 in his picture, for example, of JEsculapius with his daughters, 

 Hygia,^^* ^gle, and Panacea, his Jason, and his Sluggard, 

 known as the '^ Ocnos,"^^ a man twisting a rope at one end 

 as an ass gnaws it at the other. As to Socrates,^^* his pictures 

 are, with good reason, universally esteemed. 



Having now mentioned the principal painters in either 



^9 B.C. 168. 



^ Represented in a sitting posture, as mentioned by Ovid, Trist. II. 525, 

 and by Philostratus, Vit. Apol. B. II. c. 10. The Medea is described in. 

 an Epigram inB. iv. of the Greek An tholog}', imitated by Ausonius, Epigr. 

 22. SI See Note 65 above. ^^ Medusa, slain by Perseus. 



83 In the former editions, *' Mecophanes." 



^^ Or ochre. See B. xxxiii. c. 56. 



^^* Health, Brightness, and All-heal. ^^ Greek for " sluggard." 



6** Probably, from the context, a pupil, also, of Pausias. 



