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Arcesilaus,2= also, is an artist highly extolled by Varro ; who 

 states that he had in his possession a Lioness m marble ot his 

 and Winged Cupids playing with it, some holding it with 

 cords, and others making it drink from a horn, the whole 

 sculptured from a single block : he says, also, that the fourteen 

 figures around the Theatre of Porapeius,^^ representing different 

 Nations, are the work of Copouius. _ 



I find it stated that Canachus,^^ an artist highly praised among 

 the statuaries in bronze, executed some works also in marble. 

 Saurus '^ too, and Batrachus must not be forgotten, Lacedse- 

 monians by birth, who built the temples^^ enclosed by the Por- 

 ticos of Octavia. Some are of opinion that these artists were 

 very wealthy men, and that they erected these buildings at 

 their own expense, expecting to be allowed to inscribe their 

 names thereon ; but that, this indulgence being refused them 

 they adopted another method of attaining their object. At 

 all events, there are still to be seen, at the present day, on the 

 spirals-^ of the columns, the figures of a lizard and a trog, 

 emblematical of their names. In the Temple of Jupiter by 

 the same artists, the paintings, as well as all the other orna- 

 ments, bear reference to the worship of a goddess, 'ihe- tact 

 is that when the temple of Juno was completed, the porters, as 

 it'is said, who were entrusted with the carriage of the statues, 

 made an exchange of them; and, on religious grounds, the 

 mistake was left uncorrected, from an impression that it had 

 been by the intervention of the divinities themselves, that 

 this seat of worship had been thus shared between them. 

 Hence it is that we see in the Temple of Juno, also, the orna- 

 ments which properly pertain to the worship of Jupiter. 



22 See B. XXXV. c. 45. ^ x- j i 



23 In the Ninth Region of the City. These figures are mentioned also 

 by Suetonius, C. 46. '' See B. xxxiv. c 19. 



25 A singular combination of names, as they mean ' Lizard and 

 " Froff " No further particulars of these artists are known, but they appear 

 to have Hved in the time of Pompey. « Of Juno and Apollo. 



27 " Spir«." See Chapter 56 of this Book. , 



28 Winckelmann, in Vol. II. p. 269, of the Ilommcnti Antichi tned., 

 gives the chapiter of an Ionic column, belonging to the church ot ban 

 Lorenzo, without the walls, at Rome, on the volutes of which are repre- 

 sented a frog and a lizard. . ^v. - r *u Ti„,v,'K«r„ 



29 The old reading is adopted here, m preference to that of the Bamberg 

 MS. which does not appear reconcileable to sense in saying that this 

 temple of Jupiter was originally made in honour of Juno; tor in such case 

 there could be no mistake in introducing the emblems of female worship. 



