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being seen from every point of view ; an arrangement which 

 was favoured by the goddess herself, it is generally believed. 

 Indeed, from whatever point it is viewed, its execution is 

 equally worthy of admiration. A certain individual, it is 

 said, became enamoured of this statue, and, concealing himself 

 in the temple during the night, gratified his lustful passion 

 upon it, traces of which are to be seen in a stain left upon 

 the marble.^' 



There are also at Cnidos some other statues in marble, the 

 productions of illustrious artists ; a Father Liber^^ by Bryaxis,^^ 

 another by Scopas,**^ and a Minerva by the same hand : indeed, 

 there is no greater proof of the supreme excellence of the 

 Venus of Praxiteles than the fact that, amid such productions 

 as these, it is the only one that we generally find noticed. 

 By Praxiteles, too, there is a Cupid, a statue which occa- 

 sioned*^ one of the charges brought by Cicero against Verres, 

 and for the sake of seeing which persons used to visit Thespise: 

 at the present day, it is to be seen in the Schools" of Octavia. 

 By the same artist there is also another Cupid, without 

 drapery, at Parium, a colony of the Propontis ; equal to the 

 Cnidian Venus in the fineness of its execution, and said to have 

 been the object of a similar outrage. For one Alcetas, a 

 Rhodian, becoming deeply enamoured of it, left upon th© 

 marble similar traces of the violence of his passion. 



At Rome there are, by Praxiteles, a Flora, a Triptolemtts, 

 and a Ceres, in the Gardens of Servilius; statues of Good 

 Success'^^ and Good Fortune, in the Capitol ; as also some 

 Msenades,** and figures known as Thyiades'*^ and Caryatides ;** 



3"^ Lucian, Valerius Maxiraus, and Athenseus, tell the same improbable 

 story, borrowing it from Posidippus the historian. ^^ Bacchus. 



39 See B. xxxiv. c. 19. *o gee B. xxxiv. c. 19. 



^1 Pliny is mistaken here : for in the time of Cicero, as we find in Verr. 

 4, 2, 4, the Thespian Cupid was still at Thespise, in Bseotia, where it had 

 been dedicated by Phryne, and was not removed to Rome till the time of 

 the emperors. It was the Parian Cupid, originally made for the people of 

 Parium, that, after coming into the possession of Heius, a rich Sicilian, 

 was forcibly taken from him by Verres. 



*2 Where it was destroyed by fire in the reign of Titus. See B. xxxiv. 

 C. 37. *2 See B. xxxiv. c. 19. 



** Frantic Bacchantes. *5 Sacrificing Bacchantes. 



*^ The name given in architecture to figures of females employed as 

 columns in edifices. The Spartans, on taking the city of Carya, in Laco- 

 uia, massacred the male inhabitants, and condemned the females to the 



