Chap. 55.] MOST FAMOUS AKTI3T3 IN SILVER. 139 



ga*, 77 Boethus, 79 and Mys. 79 "Works of all these artists are still 

 extant in the Isle of Rhodes ; of Boetbus, in the Temple of 

 Minerva, at Lindus; of Acragas, in the Temple of Fathf-r 

 Liber, at llhodes, consisting of cups engraved with figures in 

 relief of Centaurs and Bacchantes ; and of Mys, in the same 

 temple, figures of Sileni and Cupids. Representations also 

 of the chase by Acragas on drinking cups were held in high 

 estimation. 



Xext to these in repute comes Calarais. 80 Antipater 81 too, it 

 has been said, laid, rather than engraved, 82 a Sleeping Satyr 

 upon a drinking-bowl. 63 Next to these come Stratonicus** of 

 Cvzicus, and Tuuriscua : M Ariston^ also, and Eunicus, 87 of 

 Mytilenc are highly praised ; lIecaticus M also, and, about the 

 age of Pompcius Magnus, Pasiteles,** Posidonius vu of Ephesus, 

 Ifedystrutiaes 91 who engraved battle-scenes and armed war- 

 riors, and /opyrus/' 2 who represented the Court of the Areopa- 



77 His age and country arc unknown. 



78 From Pausanias we learn ttmt he was a statuary and engraver on 

 plate, born at Carthage ; but Kaoul Rochette thinks that lie w;is a native 

 of Chalcedon. He is mentioned also hy Cicero, In Verrem, 4. 14, and in 

 the Culex, i. GO, ascribed by some to Virgil. 



79 His country is uncertain. According to the statements of Pausanias, 

 B. i. c. 28, he must have been a contemporary of Phidias, about Olymp. 

 84, B.C. 44-1. lie is mentioned also by Propertius. Martial, and Statins. 



" His birth-place is unknown, but he probably lived about the time of 

 Phidias, and we learn from Pausanias that he was living when the plague 

 ceased at Athens, in n.c. 4'2'J. He is mentioned also by Cicero, Ovid, 

 Quintilian, Lueian, and I)ionysius of Haliearnussus. 



81 Nothing further is known of this artist. 



82 " Collocavisse verius qiittm cx'lasse." M " Phiala." 



81 He lived probably about Olymp. 12G; but bis country is unknown, 

 lie is mentioned by Athenseus. See also B. ixxiv. c. 19. 



Si Nothing whatever is known of him, unless indeed he is identical with 

 the Tauriseus mentioned in B. xxxvi. c. 5. 



w Nothing is kuowu of bis age or country. lie is also mentioned in 

 B. xxxiv. c. 10. 



67 His age and country are unknown. See B. xxxiv. c. 19. 



8 * Nothing further is known of him. See B. xixiv. c. 19. 



89 See the end of this I5ook. 



90 Beyond the mention made of him in B. xxxiv. c. 19, no particulars 

 relative to him are known. 



vl Other read i HITS of this name are " Lanlus Stratiotes," '* Ledis Thra- 

 cidei," " Hieris Thraeides," and ' Lidistj;itie s." The iJamberg MS. has 

 " iledys Trachides." Salmasius, II ardouiu, uiid Sillig propose "Leotra- 

 tides," and Thiersch "Lysistratidt-s." 



y2 Nothing further is known of him. 



