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Lecrna 49 of Ainphicrates 49 is highly commended. The cour- 

 tesan 50 Leccua, who was a skilful performer on the lyre, and 

 had so become acquainted with Harmodius and Aristogiton, 

 submitted to be tortured till she expired, rather than betray 

 their plot for the extermination of the tyrants. 51 The Athe- 

 nians, being desirous of honouring her memory, without at 

 the same time rendering homage to a courtesan, had her re- 

 presented under the figure of the animal whose name she bore ; 5 - 

 and, in order to indicate the cause of the honour thus paid her, 

 ordered the artist to represent the animal without a tongue. w 



JJryaxis executed in brass statues of ^Esculapius arid JSeleii- 

 cus ;** Bccdas 6 * a figure in adoration; Uaton, an Apollo and a 

 Juno, which are in the Temple of Concord' 7 at Home. 



CtesiluiU* executed a statue of a man fainting from his 

 wounds, in the expression of which may be seen how little 

 life remains ; M as also the Olympian Pericles, 60 well worthy of 

 its title : indeed, it is one of the marvellous adjuncts of this 

 art, that it renders men who are already celebrated even more 



Si). 



CYphisodotus cl is the artist of an admirable Minerva, now 

 erected in the port of Athens ; as also of the altar before the 



4S Or "Lioness." See B. vii. c. 23. 



4<J The reading is doubtful here. " Iphicrates" and " Tisicrates" are 

 oilier readings. 



60 Th^ same story is related by Athenreus, B. xiii., and by Pausanias. - B. 



M I'i.-istratu3 and his sons, llippias and llipparchus. 



&: A lioness. 



M She having bitten off hor tongue, that she might not confess. 



M Hardouin has olu-rul a plausible conjecture, that for the word * 4 Si-leu- 

 Ct:m," we should read ** SaiuU-iu," an implying that the two statues exe- 

 cuted hv Bryaxis were those of J-ls -ulapius and the Goddess of iitallh. B. 



M Already Tntntioncd as a son nf J.ysippus. 



ft7 In the Eighth Kvgion of the City. 



^ Tliis reading ap[>< .r* ])reiVra!>lu to * 4 Cresilos," though the latter is 

 supported by the Itaiulurg MS. 



'* Ajasson quotes here tlie beautiful words of Virgil " Et dulces mo- 

 ri'-ns nminiscitur Argos " ** lli-niemhers. his lov'd Argos, as he dies." 



60 Dakchamps supposes that Pericles was IKTC represented in the act 

 of addressing tlie ]>ecple; Ilardouin coneeives that this statue received 

 iti title from the thumkr of liis tloqueneu in debate, or else from the 

 mighty power which lie wielded both in peaee and war, or some of the 

 other reasons whieh Plutarch mentions in the Life of IVrieles. B. 



cl It is doubtful to which of the artists of this name he alhules, the 

 older or the younger Ophisodotus, the son of I'raiittlcb. Sillig inclines 

 to think tUe former Diet. Ancient Artists. 



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