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Lala,* a female artift, who painted at Rome, is 

 celebrated for the expedition with which (he 

 painted; and her (kill moreover is faid to have 

 been fuch as entitled her to a higher price than 

 was paid to the two mofl: famous portrait painters 

 of that day : which implies that portrait painters 

 were numerous, and the pradlice flourifhing. 

 Lala was chiefly employed on female portraits, 

 and a pifSure of hers is particularly noticed where- 

 in fhe painted herfelf at a looking glafs. The 

 large portrait upon canvafs, which Nero ordered 

 to be painted of himfelf, one hundred and twenty 

 Roman feet in height, has already been noticed, 

 and the fubfequent paflage in Pliny refpefling 

 Nero's freed man, contains an inftance of tlje 



Varro benlgniflimo invento, infertls, voluminum fuorum 

 fecunditati, non nominibus tantum feptingentorHin illuf- 

 trium, fed et aliquo modo imaginibus, non paffus intei- 

 cidere figuras, au.t vetuftatem devI contra homines valere. 

 Inventor muneris etiam diis invidiofi, quando immortalita- 

 tem non folam dedit, varum etiam in omnes terras mifit, 

 ut prefentes e/Te ubique et credi poflent. This paflage 

 appears to me to imply more than a 'verbal defcripiion of 

 the perfons mentioned by Varro. 



• Lala Cyzicena perpetua virgo Marci Varronis juven- 

 ta Romae et penecillo pinxit et ceflro in ebore ; imagines 

 mulierum maxime, et Neapolv anum in grandi tabula: 

 fuam quoque imaginem ad fpeculum. Nee alllus velocior 

 manus in piftura fuit : artis vero tantum ut multum mani- 

 pretio antecederet celeberrimos eadem state imaginum 

 piftores Sopolin et Dionyfmm quorum tabulae pinacothecas 

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