Chap. 5.] WHEN :maeble was first used ix buildings. 323 



Some minute works in marble hare also gained reputation for 

 their artists: by .Alyrmecides,^^^ there was a four-horse chariot 

 so small that it could be covered, driver and aU, bv the win-s 

 ot afly; and by Callicrates/^ some ants, in marble, the feet 

 and other hmbs of which were so fine as to escape the sight. 



CHAP. 5. (6.) AT WHAT PERIOD GARBLE WAS FIKST USED IX 



BriLDI>'GS. 



This must suffice for the sculptors in marble, and the works 

 that have gained the highest repute ; with reference to whir-h 

 subject it occurs to me to remark, that spotted m.-u-bles were not 

 then in fashion. In making their statues, these artists used the 

 marble ot Thosos also,^^"^ one of tlie Cyclades. and of Lesbos, this 

 last being rather more livid than the other. The poet Alenander 

 m lact, who was a very careful enquirer into all matters of 

 luxury IS the first who has spoken, and that but rarelv. of va- 

 riegated marbles, and, indeed, of the emplovment of marble in 

 general. Columns of this material were at first emploved in 

 temples not on grounds of superior elegance, ^for that was not 

 thouglit of, as yet}, but because no material could be found of 



iTiT 'Ip^'^^'^i^V'^^ ^^'^^^^^^ It ^^^s ^^"^^^^ these circumstances, 

 that the lempJe^-^ of the Olympian Jupiter was commenced at 

 AtHens the columns of which were brought by Svlla to Eome 

 for the buildings in the Capitol. 



Still, however, there liad been a distinction di-awn between 

 ordinary stone and marble, in the davs of Homer even The 

 poet speaks in one passage of a person^* being struck down 

 with a huge mass of marble ; but that is all; and when he 

 describes the abodes of royalty adorned with everv elegance 

 besides brass, gold, electrum,^^ and silver, he only mentions 

 iTory. A ariegated marbles, in my opinion, were first dis- 

 covered m the quarries of Chios, when the inhabitants were 

 building the walls of theii' city ; a circumstance which -ave 

 rise to a tacetious repai-tee on the part of M. Cicero. It being 

 the practice with them to show these walls to everybody, as 



3° A sculptor of Miletus. See B. rii. c. 21. 

 5J A Laccdremonian artist. See B. vii. c. 21. 

 3- As Avell as that of Paros. 



33 Only completed in the time of the Emperor Adrian. 



34 C ebriones, the charioteer of Hector. See II. B. xri. 1. 735 

 ^^ See B. Sixni. c. 23. 



