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rope. On this fubject, I quoted to him a paflage 

 from Pliny, with which he was highly delighted : it 

 relates to a Painter of Sicyon, named Paujias, who 

 learned, by means of this ftudy, to paint flowers at 

 lead as well as he of Lyons knew how to draw 

 them : he had, in truth, a mafler as fkilful as Na- 

 ture herfelf, or rather one and the fame with her, 

 namely, Love. 



I (hall give this ftory in the fimplicity of Ityle 

 of the old Translator of Pliny, in order to preferve 

 all it's vivacity*. te In his youth he became ena- 

 (e moured of a nofegay girl, of the fame city with 

 " himfelf ; her name was Glycera ; fhe was very 

 " pretty, and had a Angularly elegant tafte in af- 

 ({ forttng, a thoufand different ways, the flowers 

 cc of nofegays and chaplets ; fo that Paujias, copy- 

 f( ing after Nature the chaplets and nofegays of 

 " his miftrefs, rendered himfelf, at length, perfect 

 * l in that art. Laft of all, he painted her feated, in 

 " the action of compofing a chaplet of flowers ; 

 iC and this picture is confidered as his great mafter- 

 <c piece : he called it Siephano-Plocos, the garland - 

 " weaver, becaufe Glycera had no other means of 

 " relieving the preffure of poverty, but making 

 ts and felling garlands and nofegays. And it is 

 6t confidently affirmed, that L. Lucidlus gave to 



* Pliny's Natural Hiftory, book xxxv. chap. ii. 



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