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Artists, who have transmitted these details in their works, 

 bestow wonderful encomiums upon Telephones, the Phocsean, 

 a statuary but little known, they say, because he lived in Thes- 

 ealy, where his works remained concealed ; according to their 

 account, however, he is quite equal to Polyeletus, Myron, and 

 Pythagoras. They more particularly commend his Larissa, 

 his Spintharus, the pentathlete, 31 and his Apollo. Others, 

 however, assign another reason tor his being so little known ; 

 it being owing, they think, to his having devoted himself to 

 the studios established by Kings Xerxes and Darius. 



Praxiteles, who excelled more particularly in marble, and 

 thence acquired his chief celebrity, also executed some very 

 beautiful works in brass, the llape of Proserpine, the Cntagusa/ 8 

 a Father Libcr, 0:) a figure of Drunkenness, and the celebrated 

 Satyr, 31 to the Greeks known as"Peribo0tos >>35 He also executed 

 the statues, which were formerly before the Temple 3 * of Good 

 Fortune, and the Venus, which was destroyed by fire, with 

 the Temple of that goddess, in the reign of Claudius, and was 

 considered equal to his marble statue of Venus, 37 so celebrated 

 throughout the world. He also executed a Stephanusa, 39 a Spi- 

 lumcnc, 39 an (Enophorus, 40 and two figures of llarmodius and 

 Aristogiton, who slew the tyrants; which last, having been taken, 

 away from Greece by Xerxes, were restored to the Athenians on 



as having occurred at the siege of the city of the Oxydraca?; according to 

 other hihtorians, however, it is said to have taken place ut a city of the 

 Malli. I*. 3l Soo Note 1, above. 



3 - Kan/yowra; a figure of Ceres, probably, '* leading back* 1 Proserpine 

 Iron the domains of Pluto. Sillig, however, dissents from this interpre- 

 tation; Diet. Ancient Artists. M Or liacchus. 



34 ee Pausanias, It. i. c. 20. Sillig says, ** Pliny seems to have con- 

 founded two Satyrs made by Praxiteles, for that here named stood alone 

 in the 'Via Tripod urn' at Athens, and was quite dillVreut from the one 

 which was associated with the figure of Intoxication, and that of Uaechus." 

 Diet. Ancient Artists. 



35 " Much-famed." Visconti is of opinion that the Imposing Satyr, for* 

 raerly in the Napoleon Museum at Paris, was a copy of this statue. Winck- 

 chnann is also of the same opinion. 



y> In the Second ttegiou of the city. According to Cicero, in Verrem. \i. 9 

 they were brought froin Achaia by L. Mnnimius, who took them frcm 

 Tbespia?, A.U.C. COS. 37 See B. ixxvi. c. 4. 



3%J A woman plaiting garlands. 



3J A soubriquet for an old hag, it is thought. 



40 A female carrying wiue. 



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