among the Anfients. S$ 



stroncjest. In the war of the ^tolians with Pruslas, king 

 ofBilhynia, and Phihp of Macedoii, tbey were agahi mal- 

 treated by these two kuigs, and their city was taken and 

 devastated. When the Romans acquired preponderance in 

 Greece and Macedon, they placed themselves under their 

 protection; but being too far off to be always vigorously 

 defended, each new war presented them with the sad per- 

 spective of new misfortunes. The sovereigns Eumenes and 

 Attalus treated them well ; but Mithridates made them feel 

 the dreadful effects of his anger. At last Sylla, his con- 

 queror, gave them their liberty and received them among 

 the friends of the Roman people. From friends they be- 

 came subjects, and under the emperors the beautiful women 

 of Chios flocked to Rome in order to display their musical 

 talents, and at the same, time to make a traffic of their 

 cjiarms*. After the division of the empire, the destinies 

 of this country were united, to the eujpire of Constanlinople 

 until the year 1 20", when this same island, which had formerly 

 ruled the ocean, became the property of a single Venetian. 



The history of the prosperity and adversity of a people 

 forms at the same time the history of the arts they exercised. 

 The Muses delight in tranquillity, and shun the unfortunate. 

 The sera of the greatest riches and prosperity of the island of 

 Chios, commences with tlie 30th and ends with the gi?d 

 Olympiad. It was at the commcncpment of this period that 

 the arts of Asia Minor were communicated to the islands of 

 the Ionian Sea. 



The most anticnt statuary of Chio was Melas, who must 

 have lived between the 30th and 40th Olympiad, His son 

 Micciades, and his grandson Anthernus, became celebrated 

 in the same art. Anthernus had two sons, Anthernus and 

 Bupalus, both of whom attained the greatest celebrity, and 

 were colemporary with the poet Hipponaxf. The neigh- 



bouring 



^ Horace, lib. iv. ode l.'J. 



- Cupidinani 



Lerilum solicitas. Hie vircntis, et 



Doclis pffiUerc ChiiC, 



Pttlchris exnibnl ijt f^niu. 

 •}■ PliD-Jlb. iixvi. § 5. Thi? Hippounx livetl In t'oo COtIi Olympiad. x\i he 



■wsa 



