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ten others. He made several <|iiadr!g^, a quantity of eque- 

 strian statues, and docoraled, not only Greece and Mice- 

 donia, but also the Greek cities of Italy and Sicily ^' *''' '5 

 chef d'oeuvrcs; He gave the expression of his horse ■ -ta 

 great fidelity, and he observed it in the minutest detail *. 

 He displayed this talent princip.i'ly in the niaues of his 

 horses, which he re|)resenled at full length and v.aving ia 

 the air, as may be seen in an epigram made by Philip of Ma- 

 cedon on the subject of one of his horses f- He gave r.jore 

 roundness to the forms, and less acuteness to the muscles; 

 and represented the limbs as more at ease. On comparing his 

 works with the clumsy and fleshy statues of bis predecessors, 

 we might say that he has invented new proportions for the 

 human body J. In fact, he made the heads smaller, and the 

 limbs more graceful. By this means his statues appeared 

 larger; and it was generally said of him, that if the others 

 had represented men such as they really were, Lvsippus 

 would have raised nature above herself. We may easily 

 imagine he introduced the same changes in the designs of 

 his horses, and that his labours of this description must 

 have been superior to any thing seen before his time. 



Euthycratcs §, his son and pupil, made several quadrigce 

 representing the chariot of Medea. He abandoned the ele- 

 gance and softness of his father, and substituted in place of 

 it a more noble and masculine style. 



Pyromachus jj, of the school of Lvsippus, made a chariot 

 with four horses carrying Alcibiades in it. This work was 

 at 01yn)pia; but it was carried olfand brought to Rome by 

 Nero II. 



The works of all these artists were cither among the mo- 

 numents of Delphos and Olympia, or dispersed in the other 

 cities of Greece to the time of Nero, who carried off the 

 greatest part of them in order to adorn his golden palace and 



* Proprlx I'.ujus videntur esse argutiK operum.custoditx in minimis quoquc 

 rebus. 



t Anthol. lib. iv. ch. 7. 



\ Novu iniactaquc rationc quuclrat.^s vctcruiu statnr.is permutando. 



^ llS^th Olympiad. 



11 Ibid. 



^ Plin. lib. zxxiv. d\. 8. 



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