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they study the lineaments: so that he, of all men, is thought in 

 one work of art to have exhausted all the resources of art. 

 He also made statues of a man using the body- scraper, * 5 and 

 of a naked man challenging to play at dice ; >b * as also of two 

 naked boys playing at dice, and known as the Astragalizontes ;* 7 

 they are now in the atrium of the Emperor Titus, and it is gene- 

 rally considered, that there can be no work more perfect than 

 this. He also executed a Mercury, which was formerly at Lysi- 

 machia; a Hercules Age ter/ 8 seizing his arms, which is now at 

 Koine ; and an Artemon, which has received the name of 

 Periphoretos. 8 ' Polycletus is generally considered as having 

 attained the highest excellence in statuary, and as having per- 

 iectedthe toreutic* art, which Phidias invented. A discovery 

 which was entirely his own, was the art of placing statues on 

 one leg. It is remarked, however, by Yarro, that his statues 

 are all square-built/ 1 and made very much after the same 

 model. 



* s Or M striiril." Visconti says that this was a statue of Tydeus puri- 

 fying himself Strom the murder of his brother. It is represented oil gems 

 fetill in existence. 



** 4 * Tulo iucessentem." " Gcsner (Chrestom. Plin.) has strangely ex- 

 plained these words as intimating a person I'M the act of kicking another, 

 lie seems to confound the words talus and calx'' Sillig, Diet. Ancient 

 Artist*. 



* "The players at dice." This is the subject of a painting found at 

 HerculaiKum. B. 



f * The Leader. ** A name given also to Mercury, in Pausanias, B. 

 viii. c. 31. See Sillig. Diet. Ancient Artists. 



* ** Carried about." It has been supposed by some commentators, 

 that Arlemon acquired this surname from his being carried about in a 

 litter, in consequence of his lame-ness; a very dilfereiit derivation has been 

 ;tasi<:ned by others to the word, on the authority of Anacreon, as quoted 

 lv lie radioes Ponticus, that it was applied to Artemon in consequence of 

 his excessively luxurious and effeminate habits of life. 13. It was evi- 

 dently a recumbent figure. Ajassou compares this Voluptuous person to 

 **/* gentleman Angla'x aux Indts* **The English Gentleman in India!" 



*> See Note 80 above. 



** * Quadrata." Urotero quotes a passage from Celsus, B. ii. c. 1, 

 which serves to explain the use of this term as applied to the form of a 

 statue ; * Corpus autt-m habilis&imum quudratum eat, iieque gracile, nequo 

 obesum." H. "The body best adapted for activity is square-built, and 

 ceither slander nor obese." 



*"- ** Ad unum exemplum." Having a sort of family likeness, similarly 

 to our pictures by Francia the Goldsmith, and Angelica Kuufuaunu. 



