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stances, no doubt, would have made but one colour of several, 

 if coloured tissues had been put into it, is here made to yield 

 several colours from a single dye. At the same moment that 

 it dyes the tissues, it boils in the colour ; and it is the fact, 

 that material which has been thus submitted to the action of 

 lire becomes stouter and more serviceable for wear, than it 

 would have been if it had not been subjected to the process 



CHAP. 43. (120 THE INVENTOES OF THE AET OF MODELLING. 



On painting we have now said enough, and more than enough ; 

 but it will be only proper to append some accounts of the 

 plastic art. Entades, a potter of Sicyon, was the first who in- 

 vented, at Corinth, the art of modelling portraits in the earth 

 which he used in his trade. It was through his daughter that 

 he made the discovery ; who, being deeply in love with a young 

 man about to depart on a long journey, traced the profile of 

 his face, as thrown upon the wall by the light of the lamp. Upon 

 seeing this, her father filled in the outline, by compressing clay 

 upon the surface, and so made a face in relief, which he then 

 hardened by fire along with other articles of pottery. This 

 model, it is said, was preserved in the Nymphaeum^'' at Corinth, 

 until the destruction of that city by Mummius.*" Others, again, 

 assert that the first inventors of the plastic art were Ehoecus^-^ 

 and Theodorus,*^ at Samos, a considerable period before the ex- 

 pulsion of the Bacchiadae from Corinth : and that Damaratus,^^ 

 on taking to flight from that place and settling in Etruria, where 

 he became father of Tarquinius, who was ultimately king of 

 the Roman people, was accompanied thither by the modellers 

 Euchir,*'* Diopus, and Eugrammus, by whose agency the art 

 was first introduced into Italy. 



35 Or Temple of the Nymphs. The daughter of Butades is called " Core" 

 by Athenagoras. '^^ See B. xxxiv. c. 3. 



*^ Son of Philseus. He is mentioned by Pausanias, B. Tiii. c. 14, and 

 by Herodotus, B. iii. c. 60, as the architect of a fine temple at Samos, 

 and, with Smilis and Theodorus, of the Labyrinth at Lemnos. 



"^^ Mentioned also in B. xxxiv. c. 19. Pliny is in error here in using the 

 word " plastice ;" for it was the art of casting brass, and not that of making 

 plaster casts, that these artists invented. 



*3 See Chapter 5 of this Book. Be is said by Dionysius of Halicar- 

 nassus, B. iii., to have been a member of the family of the Bacchiadie. 



^^ A different person, probably, from the one of the same name mentioned 

 in B, vii. c. 66. 



