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according to the statement of Pliny (Nat. Hist. 34. 8. 19. 51): " Lysippus fuit, cum et 

 Alexander magnns, item Lysistratus frater ejus," etc. Sillig, in his Catalogus Artijicum 

 (p. 256), expresses the opinion that Lysippus was, at the time of Alexander's death 

 (01. 11-4. 1, 323 B. C), nearly seventy years old. Lysippus was one of the most prolific 

 artists, and although the accounts of ancient writers are extremely meagre, Sillig enu- 

 merates twenty-four of his works. I shall confine myself to those which were in 

 Italy, or, more particularly, in Rome, in and before the time of Augustus. 1. A colos- 

 sal statue of Jupiter, at Tarentum, forty cubits high. Fabius Maximus Verrucosus 

 (Cunctator) wished, but was not able, to remove it to Rome (c£ Plin. Nat. Hist. 34. 7. 

 18. 40). 2. A colossal statue of Hercules, at Tarentum, which Fabius Maximus Cunc- 

 tator transported to Rome and placed in the Capitol (cf. Plin. Nat. Hist. 1. c), 209 B. C, 

 545 U. C. After an interval of more than fiAe hundred years, probably in the reign of 

 Constantinus, the statue was transported to Constantinople, and first set up in a ba- 

 silica, afterwards in the Hippodrome, and finally destroyed by the Latins. 3. A statue 

 of Hercules in a sitting position, in the house of Nonius Vindex, mentioned by Mar- 

 tial (9. 44) and Statins (Silv. 4. 6). 4. A group representing the labors of Hercules, 

 first erected in Alyzia in Acarnania. Strabo, who lived during the reign of Augustus 

 and a part of that of Tiberius, speaking of the town Alyzia and of the temple of 

 Hercules, says (10. 2. 22) : 'E^ avrov ' HpaK\eov<; a6\ov?, epya AvaiTTTTOv, fj.eT7]veyKev et? 'PafiTjv 

 Twv Tjye/jLovwv t(?, irapa tottov Kei/xevov^ Bia ttjv eprjiiiav. 



Myron, who lived about 01. 87 (430 B. C), nearly a century before Lysippus, al- 

 though less prolific, left many works. Of these, several representations of animals were 

 in Rome. Augustus placed his group of four oxen in the portico of the temple of the 

 Palatine Apollo as early as 28 B. C. (726 U. C), when he dedicated that temjile. We 

 have the following account in Strabo (14. 1. 14) of a group of Jupiter, Minerva, and 

 Hercules, originally placed in Samos, removed by Antonius, and in j)art restored by 

 Augustus : ^flv Tpia Mvpoovo^ epya KoKoacriKa iSpvp-eva eirc p,ia<; l3a<7eco<; • a fjpe /j.ev Avrtovtoi, 

 aveOr]Ke Be -iroKiv 6 S'eySao-TOS Kalaap eU ^-qv avTrjv ^daiv ra Bvo, rfjv 'AOrjvav Koi tov 'HpuKXea' 

 Tov Be Ala eU to KaireTwKiov fieTrjveyKe, KaracrKevacra^ avTU) vaCaKOv. Besides this Statue of 

 Jupiter, and one of Hercules near the Cuxus Maximus in the temple of Pompeius 

 Magnus, in the eleventh region of the city, I am not aware that any other image by 

 the hand of Myron, of man or god, Avas in Rome, unless it be the statue of Hercules, 

 the property of Heius of Messana, which Verres carried off,* or the statue of Apollo, 



* Cf. Cic. in Verr. 4. 3. 5 : " Verum ut ad illud sacrarium redeam, signum erat hoc, quod dice, Cu- 

 pidinis e raarmore ; e.x altera parte Hercules, egregie factus ex aere. Is dicebatur esse Myronis, ut opinor ; 

 et certe." 



