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it took place on the river Nilus, the waters of which are similar 

 in appearance to those of the sea, he employed an emblem to 

 disclose that which would not admit of expression by art ; for he 

 painted an ass drinking on the shore, and a crocodile lying in 

 ■wait for him.^° 



(Enias has painted a Family Group ; Philiscus, a Painter's 

 Studio, with a boy blowing the fire ; Phalerion, a Scylla ; Si- 

 monides, an Agatharchus and a Mnemosyne ; Simus, a youth 

 reposing, a Puller's Shop, a person celebrating the Quinqua- 

 tria," and a Nemesis of great merit. By Theorus^^ there is a 

 Man Anointing himself; a picture of the Murder of ^gisthus 

 and Clytaemnestra by Orestes ; and a representation of the 

 Trojan War, in a series of paintings, now at Rome, in the 

 Porticos^^ of Philippus : a Cassandra^'^ also, in the Temple of 

 Concord ; a Leontium, the mistress of Epicurus, in an attitude 

 of meditation ; and a King Demetrius.^^ Theon^^ has painted 

 the Prenzy^' of Orestes, and a Thamyras^^ playiug on the 

 lyre ; Tauriscus, a Discobolus,^^ a Clytaemnestra, a Pan in mini- 

 ature, a Polynices claiming^'^ the sovereignty, and a Capaneus.'^' 



In speaking of these artists, I must not omit to mention 

 one memorable circumstance : Erigonus, who was colour- 

 grinder to the painter Nealces, himself made such progress in 

 the art as to leave a very celebrated pupil, Pasias, the brother of 

 -^gineta, the modeller. It is also a very singular fact, and one 

 well deserving of remark, that the last works of these artists, 

 their unfinished paintings,in fact, are held in greater admiration 

 than their completed works ; the Iris of Aristides, for instance, 

 the Tyndaridae^- of Nicomachus, the Medea of Timomachus,^^ 

 and the Venus of Apelles,-* already mentioned. For in such 



10 According to Brotero, a representation of the Ass and CrocodUe was 

 found in the pictorial embellishments at Herculaneum. 



11 See B. xvii. c. 36, B. xviii. c. 56, and B. xix. c. 24. 

 ^2 " Theodorus " in most of the editions. 



13 See Chapter 36 of this Book, page 252. 



1* See the ^neid, B. II. c. 403, et seq, is Poliorcetes. 



16 A native of Samos, mentioned by Qiiintilian, B. xii. c. 10, as one of 

 the painters between the time of Philip and that of the successors of Alex- 

 ander. '7 After the murder of his mother. i^ See B. vii. c. 57. 



-" Against his brother Eteocles, i^ Or player with the discus. 



21 Who assisted Polynices in his siege of Thebes. 



22 Helen, Castor, and Pollux. 23 gee B. vii. c. 37. 



2^ Mentioned in Chapter 36, as having been commenced for the people 

 of Cos, but never finished. 



