17S PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY. [Book XXXIV. 



the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great. 41 He also made 

 the youthful Apollo, known as the "Suuroctonos," 1 - because he 

 is aiming an arrow at a lizard which is stealing towards him. 

 There are greatly admired, also, two statues of his, expressive 

 of contrary emotions a Matron in tears, and a Courtesan full 

 of gaiety.: this last is supposed to be a likeness of Phryne, and 

 it is said that we can detect in her figure the love of the artist, 

 and iu the countenance of the courtesan the promised reward." 



His kindness of heart, too, is witnessed by another iigure ; 

 for in a chariot and horses which had been executed by Cala- 

 mis, 41 he himself made the charioteer, in order that the artist, 

 who excelled in the representation of horses, might not be 

 considered deficient in the human figure. This lust-men- 

 tioned artist bus executed other chariots also, some with four 

 horses, and some with two ; and in his horses lie is always 

 unrivalled. But that it may not be supposed that lie was so 

 grvutly inferior in his human figures, it is as well to remark 

 that his Alemena 14 is equal to any that was ever produced. 



Alcamenes, 40 who was a pupil of Phidias, worked in marble 

 and executed a Pentathletc in brass, known as the " Kncrino- 

 nieiios." 47 Aristides, too, who was the scholar of Polycletus, 

 executed chariots iu metal with four and two horses. The 



41 According to Valerius Maximus, 15. ii. s. 10, these statues were rc- 

 Ft'rod, not by Alexander, but by his successor Seleucus. U. Silliir makes 

 the following remark upon tins passage " Pliny here strangely confounds 

 the statues of Harmoditis and Artstogiton, made by -Praxiteles," with other 

 figure* of those heroes of a much more ancient <lat- t made by Antenor." 



** 1'rnr.i rai-poc. a "lizard," and jcr*ii's, "to kill." This statue is dt % - 

 sn-ibcd by Martial. 11. xiv. Kj>. 17'2,entitlfd ik Sauroetonos Corinthiux" B. 

 Many line copies uf it are still in existence, and Winckelmann is of opinion 

 that the brouzc at the Villa Albani is the original. There are others nt 

 the Villa Bor^heso and in the Vatican. 



;> In hr worthless favours, probably. Praxiteles was a ^n at admirer 

 of 1'hryue, and inscribed on the has.- of this statue an K]iit;ram of Siiiu'ii- 

 ides, pr served in th< <Ireek Anthd^y, !'. iv. Kj. 12. She was also .said 

 to have been the model of bis Cnidian Venus. 



41 This artist is mentioned also by Cicero, Panaanias, Proj^rtius, and 

 Ovid, the two latter especially remarking the excellence of his horses. iJ. 

 .. }'. \\xiii. c. 55. 



ai The motht-T of Hercules. B. 



40 See B. xxxvi. c. 4. Having noxv <riren an account of the arlUts 

 most distinguished for their genius, Pliny j>n>ceeds t-> make some remarks 

 ujHiii those who were less famous, in alphabetical order. B. 



47 The highly approved.' 1 



