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an extraordinary versatility of talents. According 

 to Pliny, he originally studied the art of painting, 

 but, with the exception of a portrait of Pericles, 

 no productions of his pencil are remaining. His 

 performances in marble, bronze, and ivory, were 

 numerous, though it has been remarked that his 

 execution was by no means rapid.* Among his 

 earlier productions may be enumerated two 

 statues of Venus, one of which was in Rome, in 

 the time of Pliny, and the other in the temple of 

 Venus Urania, at Athens. But the statue which 

 would be viewed with most interest by his coun- 

 trymen, was, unquestionably, his Nemesis. This 

 statue was sculptured from that identical block of 

 marble which was brought by the Persian invaders 

 for the purpose of being formed into a trophy of 

 their conquest, but which was, ultimately, con- 

 verted into a testimonial of their defeat. It was 

 stationed in a temple at Rhamnus. situated ten 

 stadia from the field of Marathon. An epigram 

 which appears in the Anthologia, has been thus 

 translated by Hayley : — 



" Of ivory whiteness — from a mountain rock — 

 A Median sculptor, in a massive block, 



* xpovn ehiiTO, Kai (rxoAr^s ttXcioi/os ct? ra epya. Themistius 

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