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parted from each other.* Arrachion was twice 

 victorious at the Olympic games — viz. in the fifty- 

 third and fifty-fourth Olympiad. 



Sculpturing in marble was practised at a much 

 earlier period than the art of casting statues in 

 bronze; for if we may believe Pliny, it was ac- 

 complished by Malas as early as the first Olympiad, 

 and was practised by his descendants in regular 

 succession, for the space of 240 years. In the 

 fiftieth Olympiad flourished Dipsenus and Scyllis, 

 natives of Crete, and pupils of Daedalus. Their 

 works were chiefly executed in Parian marble ; 

 but various instances are on record, which prove 

 that occasionally they employed ebony. 



Of the oldest artists in bronze, it will be suffi- 

 cient to mention a few only, who have achieved 

 a more than common celebrity, or whose eras 

 permit of being precisely determined. Ageladas 

 of Argos, executed a bronze chariot, drawn by 

 four horses, and containing two figures, repre- 

 senting Cleosthenes, who was victorious in the 

 sixty-sixth Olympiad, and his charioteer. (V'oxos). 



* dvSptas ra re ukXa ap^aios . kul a^' -qKaa ctti Tm a-^fxcCii. a 

 Siesacrt /xec iroXvv dt ttoSc?, KaOrjvrai 8c Tropo, irXevpa aJ X«ip€S o-xpi- 

 T<,)v yXiirojv. Pans. VIII. 40. p. 520. 



