314 PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY. [Book XXXVI. 



Bome SileniV^ to be seen in the memorial buildings of Asinius 

 Pollio, and statues of Apollo and Neptune. 



Cephisodotus,*^ the son of Praxiteles, inherited his father's 

 talent. There is, by him, at Pergamus, a splendid Group*' of 

 Wrestlers, a work that has been highly praised, and in which 

 the fingers have all the appearance of being impressed upon 

 real flesh rather than upon marble. At Eome there are by 

 him, a Latoua, in the Temple of the Palatium ; a Venus, in the 

 buildings that are memorials of Asinius Pollio ; and an JEscu- 

 lapius, and a Diana, in the Temple of Juno situate within 

 the Porticos of Octavia. 



Scopas*" rivals these artists in fame: there are by him, a 

 Venus*^ and a Pothos,*^- statues which are venerated at Samo- 

 thrace with the most august ceremonials. He was also the 

 sculptor of the Palatine Apollo ; a Vesta seated, in the Gardens 

 of Servilius, and represented with two Bends*^ around her, a 

 work that has been highly praised ; two similar Bends, to be 

 seen upon the buildings of Asinius Pollio ; and some figures of 

 Canephori" in the same place. But the most highly esteemed 

 of all his works, are those in the Temple erected by Cneius 

 Domitius," in the Plaminian Circus; a figure of Neptune 

 himself, a Thetis and Achilles, Nereids seated upon dolphins, 

 cetaceous fishes, and*® sea-horses,*' Tritons, the train of Phor- 



most bitter servitude, as '* hewers of wood and drawers of water." Hence 

 the memorials of their servitude thus perpetuated in architecture. 



*' Or companions of Bacchus. See B. xxxv. c. 36. 



4'^ See B. xxxiv. c. 19. " *' Symplegma." 



^ Also mentioned in B. xxxiv. c. 19. 



5^ Pausanias, B. I., speaks of three figures sculptured by Scopas ; Eros, 

 Himeros, and Pothos. It is doubtful, however, whether they are iden- 

 tical with those here spoken of. 



=2 Or •'Desire," The name of " Phaethon" is added inmost of the 

 editions, but Sillig rejects it as either a gloss, or a corruption of some 

 other name. 



*3 <' Campteras." This, which is probably the true reading, has been 

 restored by Sillig from the Bamberg MS. The KajU7rr/)p was the bend or 

 turning, round the goal in the race-course for chariots ; and as Vesta was 

 fiymbolical of the earth, these figures, Sillig thinks, probably represented 

 the poles, as goals of the sun's course. 



54 Figures of Virgins, carrying on their heads baskets filled with ob- 

 jects consecrated to Minerva. 



*5 Dedicated to Neptune by Cneius Domitius Ahenobarbus, in the Ninth 

 Region of the City. 



^ "Et" appears a preferable reading to the "aut" of the Bamberg MS. 



'^ ♦• Hippocampi." It is pretty clear that by this name he cannot mean 



