2/8 PLIlfY's NATURAL HISTORY. ["Book XXXV. 



branch ,^^ I must not pass in silence those who occupy the 

 next rank. Aristoclides decorated the Temple of Apollo at 

 Delphi. Antiphilus^'' is highly praised for his picture of a 

 Eoy blowing a Fire, which illumines an apartment handsomely 

 furnished, and throws a light*^ upon the features of the 

 youth ; a Spinning-room, with women plying their respective 

 tasks ; and a King Ptolemaeus hunting. But his most famous 

 picture is his Satyr, clad in a panther's skin, and known as 

 the '' Aposcopeuon."^^ Aristophon^° has painted an Ancseus^^ 

 wounded by the Boar, with Astypale, the sharer of his grief; 

 and a picture with numerous figures, representing Priam, 

 Helena, Credulity, Ulysses, Deiphobus, and Guile.®^ Andro- 

 bius has painted a Scyllus^^ cutting away the anchors of the Per- 

 sian fleet : and Artemon a Danae, with Eobbers in admiration ; 

 a Queen Stratonice ;^* and a Hercules and Deianira. But the 

 finest of all this artist's works are those now in the buildings 

 of Octavia ; a Hercules ascending to heaven, with the sanction 

 of the gods, from his funeral pile upon Mount CEta in Doris ; 

 and the story of Laomedon and his bargain^" with Hercules 

 and Neptune. Alcimachus has painted Dioxippus,^^ who was 

 Tictorious in the pancratium at Olympia, w^ithout raising the 

 dust ; a victory known to the Greeks as being gained " aco- 

 niti."^' Coenus painted pedigrees.^® 



Ctesilochus, a pupiP^ of Apelles, was famous for a burlesque 



'^^ In pencil painting, and in encaustic. 



^^ Probably the same painter that is mentioned in Chapter 37. 



^^ An effect for which Schalken is famous. ^^ " Shading his eyes." 



^^ Son and pupil of Aglaopho, and brother of Polygnotus. He was 

 probably a native of Thasos. ^^ See Chapter 36, Note 77, page 261. 



92 '< Dolus." An emblematical picture evidently, probably representing 

 the events just prior to the capture of Troy. 



33 A famous diver, mentioned by Herodotus, B. viii. c. 8, Pausanias, 

 B. X. c. 19. and Strabo, B. ix. 



^1 Probably the wife of Seleucus, given by him to his son Antiochus. 

 See B. vii. c. 37, Note 38. 



9^ That they should rebuild the walls of Troy. 



^s His contest with Corragus the Macedonian, whom he defeated, is 

 mentioned also by .^lian, Diodorus Siculus, Athenaeus, and Quintus 

 Curtius. 



^' Gained " without raising the dust," i. e. without any difficulty. 



38 This is perhaps the meaning of "stemraata ;" '•heraldic pictures," 

 probably. See Juvenal, Sat. viii. 1. 2. 



33 Suidas seems to mention him, under the name of "Ctesiochus," as 

 the brother of Apelles. 



