318 plint's natural histoet. [Book XTIVL 



the Temple of Diana there, behind the sanctuary. The keepers 

 of the temple recommend persons, when viewing it, to be 

 careful of their eyes, so remarkably radiant ^is the marble. 

 No less esteemed, too, are the statues of the Graces,®^ in the 

 Propylasum^'* at Athens; the workmanship of Socrates the 

 sculptor, a different person from the painter^^ of that name, 

 though identical with him in the opinion of some. As to 

 Myron, ^® who is so highly praised for his works in bronze, 

 there is by him at Smyrna, An Old Woman Intoxicated, a 

 work that is held in high estimation. 



Asinius Pollio, a man of a warm and ardent temperament, 

 was determined that the buildings which he erected as memo- 

 rials of himself should be made as attractive as possible ; for 

 here we see groups representing, Nymphs carried off by Centaurs, 

 a work of Arcesilas :^^ the Thespiades,^^ by Cleomenes :^^ Oceanus 

 and Jupiter, by Heniochus :^° the Appiades,^^ by Stephanus :^^ 

 Hermerotes,^^ by Tauriscus, not the chaser in silver, already^* 

 mentioned, but a native of Tralles :^^ a Jupiter Hospitalism^ by Pa- 

 pylus, a pupil of Praxiteles : Zethus and Araphion, with Dirce, 

 the BuU,^" and the halter, all sculptured from a single block of 



83 " Charites." 84 a Porch," or ** Vestibule" of the Citadel at Athens. 



^ Mentioned in B. xxxv. c. 40. The present Socrates is identified by 

 Pausanias, B. i. c. 22, and B. ix. c. 25, and by Diogenes Laertius, B. ii. 

 c. 19, with the great Athenian philosopher of that name, son of the statuary 

 Sophroniscus : but the question as to his identity is very doubtful. Diogenes 

 Laertius adds, that whereas artists had previously represented the Graces 

 naked, Socrates sculptured them with drapery. 



8S See B. xxxiv. c. 19. ^'' See B' xxxv. C. 45. 



88 Or Muses of Thespige, in Bceotia. 



89 There have been several distinguished sculptors, all of this name. 

 A statuary, son of Apollodorus the Athenian, made the celebrated Venus 

 de Medici. It is the opinion of Visconti and Thiersch, that the artist here 

 mentioned flourished before the destruction of Corinth. 



90 This name is doubtful, and nothing is known relative to the artist. 



91 " Hippiades" is the old reading, which Dalechamps considers to 

 mean *' Amazons." The Appiades were Nymphs of the Appiau Spring, 

 near the temple of Venus Genetrix. in the Forum of Julius Csesar. See 

 Ovid, Art. Am. B. i. 1. 81, and B. iii. 1. 451 ; and Rem. Am. 1. 659. 



^' From an inscription on a statue still extant, he is supposed to have 

 been a pupil of Pasiteles, and consequently to have flourished about b.c. 25. 



S3 Figures in which the form and attributes of Hermes, or Mercury, and 

 Eros, or Cupid, were combined, Hardouin thinks. 



91 In B. xxxiii. c. 55. ^= In Caria : see B. v. c. 29. 



98 Or '• Xenias" — " Presiding over hospitality," or " Protector of stran- 

 gers." 



^^ The story was, that Zethus and Amphion bound Dirce, queen of 



