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marble, the work of ApoUonius and Tauriscus, and brought to 

 Rome from Rhodes. These two artists made it a sort of rivalry 

 as to their parentage, for they declared that, although Apollodorus 

 was their natural progenitor, Menecrates®^ would appear to have 

 been their father. In the same place, too, there is a Father 

 Liber, '^ by Eutychides/ highly praised. Near the Portico of Oc- 

 tavia, there is an Apollo, by Philiscus^ of Rhodes, placed in the 

 Temple of that God ; a Latona and Diana also ; the Nine Muses ; 

 and another Apollo, without drapery. The Apollo holding the 

 Lyre, in the same temple, was executed by Timarchides.^ In 

 the Temple of Juno, within the Porticos of Octavia, there is 

 a figure of that goddess, executed by Dionysius,* and another 

 by Polycles,^ as also other statues by Praxiteles.^ This Poly- 

 cies, too, in conjunction with Dionysius,' the son of Timar- 

 chides, made the statue of Jupiter, which is to be seen in the 

 adjoining temple.* The figures of Pan and Olympus Wrestling, 

 in the same place, are by Heliodorus f and they are considered 

 to be the next finest group^° of this nature in all the world. The 

 same artist also executed a Venus at the Bath, and Polychar- 

 mu8 another Venus, in an erect^^ posture. 



By the honourable place which the work of Lysias occupies, 

 we may see in what high esteem it was held by tlie late Em- 

 peror Augustus, who consecrated it in honour of his father 

 Octavius, in the Palatium, placing it on an arch within a small 



Thebes, to the flanks of an infuriated bull, in revenge for the death of 

 their mother, Antiope, who had been similarly slain by her. This group 

 is supposed still to exist, in part, in the " Farnese Bull," which has been 

 in a great measure restored. Winckelraann is of opinion, however, that 

 the Farnese Bull is of anterior date to that here mentioned, and that it 

 belongs to the school of Lysippus. 



^^ Probably a native of Rhodes. No further particulars of this artist 

 appear to be known. ^^ Bacchus. 



^ See B. xxxiv. c. 19. 



2 A different person, probably, from the painter, mentioned in B. xxxv. 

 c. 40. 3 See B. xxxiv. c. 19. 



* Supposed by Sillig not to be the early statuary of Argos of that name, 

 ■who flourished, probably, B.C. 476. ^ See B. xxxiv. c. 19. 



^ " Pasiteles" would appear to be a preferable reading ; for Pliny would 

 Burely have devoted more space to a description of these works of Praxiteles. 



' The same artist that is previously mentioned, Sillig thinks. 



8 Of Jupiter. ^ See B. xxxiv. c. 19. 



»o " Symplegma." See Note 49, page 314. 



^^ The first being in a stooping posture, washing herself. 



