180 PLINY'S NATUBAL ms-ronr, [Book XXXIV. 



Temple of Jupiter Servator, 82 at the same place, to \vhich, 

 indeed, few works aro comparable, 



Canachus 63 executed a nude Apollo, which is known as tho 

 " Philesian :"" it is at Didymi, 64 and is composed of bronze 

 that was fused at ./Egina. He also made a stag with it, so 

 nicelv poised on its hoofs, as to admit of a thread being passed 

 beneath. One w fore-foot, too, and the alternate hind-foot are 

 BO made as firmly to grip the base, the socket being 07 so in- 

 dented on either side, as to admit of the figure being thrown 

 at pleasure upon alternate feet. Another work of his was the 

 boys known as the " Celetizontes. ms 



Chxreas made statues of Alexander tho Great and of his 

 father Philip. Desilaus 63 made a Doryphoros 70 and a wounded 

 Amazon; and Demetrius 71 a statue of Lysimache, who was 

 priesU'ss of Minerva sixty- four years. This statuary also made 

 the Minerva, which has the name of Musica, 7 * and HO called be- 

 cause the dragons on its Gorgon's head vibrate at the sound of 

 the lyre ; also an equestrian statue of Simon, the first writer 



" The "Deliverer." 63 The elder Can ach us, probably. 



64 The " Lovel/." Ilrotero says that this is bulk-veil to be the Flo- 

 rentioe Apollo of the present day. It stood in the Temple at Didymi, 

 near Miletus, until the return of Xerxes from his expedition against Greece, 

 xvben it was removed to Ecbatnna, hut was afterwards restored by St-leucus 

 >*icator. " Sec B. v. c. 31. 



66 "Alterno rnorsu ealce di^itisque retinentibus solum, ita vertebrate 

 (lente utrisque in partibus ut a repultm per viecs resiliat." lie seems to 

 mean that the statue is so made as to be capable of standing either on tho 

 right fore foot and the left hind foot, or on the left fore foot and the right 

 hind foot, the conformation of the under part of the foot being such as to 

 fit into the base. 



67 The following are the words of the original: " Ita vcrtebrato dcnto 

 utrisque in partibus." I confess myself unable to comprehend them, nor do 

 J think that they are satisfactorily explained by Uurdouin's comment. B, 



68 The u Riders on horseback." 



^ It is .supposed by tSilliir, iJict. Ancient Artists, that this is the same 

 person as the Cresilas, Cttsilas or Ctesilaus, before mentioned in this Chap- 

 ter, and that I'liny himself has committed a mistake in the name. 



~' } A figure of a man '* brandishing a spear;" See Note 83 above. 



" l He la mentioned by Quint ilian as being more attentive to exactness 

 than to beauty; also by Iiogciics Laertius, U. v. c. 8-0. Silli^ f,upprse 

 that he ilourished in the time of rtritles. 1'ausanias, D. i., speaks of his 



'~ 2 The Athenians i tlieir flatten*, as we learn from Scnecn, expressed a 

 uish to affiance their Minerva Musica to Marc Antony. His reply was, 

 that he would be happy to take her, but with one thousand talenU by way 

 of portion. 



