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Myron of Eleuthene, 93 who was also the pupil of Agelades, 

 was rendered more particularly famous by his statue of a 

 heifer,* 4 celebrated in many well-known lines : so true is it, 

 that most men owe their renown more to the genius of others, 

 than to their own. He also made the figure of a dog, 94 a 

 Discobolus, 9 * a Perseus,'-' 7 the Pristse,** a Satyr admiring a Hute, 

 and a Minerva, the Delphic Pcntathletes, 1 the PuncratiasUe,* 

 and a Hercules, 3 which is at the Circus Maximus, in the house 

 of Pompeius Magnus. Erinna, 4 in her poems, 5 makes allusion 

 to a monument which he erected to a cricket and a locust. 

 He also executed the Apollo, which, after being taken from the 

 EphcMans by the Triumvir Ajitonius,; was restored by the 

 Emperor Augustus, he having been admonished to do so in a 

 dream. Myron appears to have been the first to give a varied 

 development to the art, 8 having made a greater number of 

 designs than Polycletus, and shewn more attention to sym- 

 metry. And yet, though he was very accurate in the propor- 

 tions of his figures, he has neglected to give expression ; 

 besides which, lie has not treated the hair and the pubes with 



93 Myron was born at EleuthertB, in Bocotia ; but having been presented 

 by the Athenians with the freedom of their city, he afterwards resided 

 there, and wus always designated an Athenian. 11. 



v4 This figure is 'referred to by Ovid, De Ponto. I*, iv. Ep. 1, 1. 34, as 

 also by a host of Epigrammatic writers in the Greek Anthology. 



v5 See the Greek Anthology, IJ. vi. Kp. 2. 



% Player with the Discus"." It it mentioned bv Quihtilian and Lucian. 

 There is a copy of it in marble in the British Museum, and one in the 

 Palazzo jMassimi at Komc. The Heifer of Myron is mentioned by Pro- 

 copius, as being at Konie in the sixth century. 2so copy of it is known to 

 exist. 



V7 Seen by Pausanias in the Acropolis at Athens. " Or " Sawyers." 



w In reference to tlic story of the Satyr Marsyas and Minerva ; told by 

 Ovid, Fasti, B. vi. 1. G97,'rt sfy. 



1 Persons engaged in the five contests of (^uoiting, running, leaping, 

 wrestling, and hurling the javelin. 



2 Competitors in boxing and wrestling. 



3 Mentioned by Cicero In Verrem, Or. 4. This Circus was in the 

 Eleventh Region of the city. 



4 See the Anthology, H. iii. Ep. 14, where an epigram on this subject 

 is ascribed to Any ten or Lconides ; but the Myro mentioned is u female. 

 See Sillig, i)ict. Ancient Artists. 



5 She was a poetess of Teios or Lesbos, and a contemporary of Sappho. 

 * "Multiplicasse veritatem." Siilig has commented at some length on 



this passage, Diet. Ancient Aituts. 



