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works as these, we not only see the outline depicted, and the 

 \'ery thoughts of the artist expressed, but have the composition 

 additionally commended to our notice by tbe regrets which we 

 must necessarily feel on finding the hand that commenced it 

 arrested by death. 



There are still some other artists, who, though by no means 

 without reputation, can only be noticed here in a summary 

 manner : Aristocydes ; Anaxander ; Aristobulus of Syria ; 

 Arcesilas,-^ son of Tisicrates ; Corcebos, a pupil of Nicomachus ; 

 Charmantides, a pupil of Euphranor ; Dionysodorus of Colophon ; 

 Dica30genes, a contemporary of King Demetrius ;^^ Euthymides; 

 Heraclides-s of Macedon ; Milo of Soli, a pupil of the statuary 

 Pyromachus ; Mnasitheus of Sicyon ; Mnasitimus, the son and 

 j)upil of Aristonidas f^ Nessus, son of Habron •,^^ Polemon of 

 Alexandria; Theodorus of Samos, and Stadieus, pupils of 

 Nicosthenes ; and Xeno of Sicyon, a pupil of Neocles. 



There have been some female painters also. Timarete, the 

 daughter of Micon,^^ painted a Diana at Ephesus, one of the 

 very oldest panel-paintings known. Irene, daughter and 

 pupil of the artist Cratinus,^^ painted a figure of a girl, now 

 at Eleusis, a Calypso, an Aged Man, the juggler Theodorus, 

 and Alcisthenes the dancer. Aristarete, daughter and pupil of 

 Nearchus, painted an .iEsculapius. laia of Cyzicus, who always 

 remained single, painted at Rome, in the youth of M. Varro, 

 both with the brush, and with the graver, ^^ upon ivory, her sub- 

 jects being female portraits mostly. At Naples, there is a large 

 picture by her, the portrait of an Old Woman ; as also a portrait 

 of herself, taken by the aid of a mirror. There was no painter 

 superior to her for expedition ; while at the same time her 

 artistic skill was such, that her works sold at much higher 

 prices than those of the most celebrated portrait-painters of 



25 See B. xxxiv. cc. 19, 39. Sillig is of opinion that the picture men- 

 tioned by Pausanias, B. I. c. 1, in honour of Leosthenes, killed in the La- 

 mian "War, B.C. 323, was by this artist. 



27 Poliorcetes, who began to reign B.C. 306. 



2s Already mentioned in this Chapter, at greater leno-th. 



29 See B. xxxiv. c. 40. 



^"^ See Chapter 36 of this Book, and the present Chapter. Of the greater 

 part of these artists nothing furtlier is known. 



^^ See Chapter 35 of this Book. 



2- Previously mentioned in this Chapter. 33 Or stylus—'' cestrum." 



