182 FLINT'S NATURAL IIJSTOHY. [Book XXXIV. 



before the Temple of Jupiter Tonans : M Jlegesias, 1 * for his 

 Hercules, which is at our colony of Puriuni.** Of Isidotus^ve 

 have the Buthytes. 90 



Lycius was the pupil 91 of Myron : lie made a figure repre- 

 senting a hoy blowing a nearly extinguished lire, well worthy 

 of his master, as also figures of the Argonauts. Leochares 

 made a hronze representing the eagle carrying off Ganymede : 

 the eagle has all the appearance of being sensible of the impor- 

 tance of his burden, and for whom ho is carrying it, being 

 careful not to injure the youth with his talons, even through 

 the garments. 92 He executed a figure, also, of Autolycus,* 3 who 

 had been victorious in the contests of the Pancratium, and for 

 whom Xenophon wrote his Symposium ; H the ligure, also, of 

 Jupiter Tonans in the Capitol, the most admired of all his 

 works; and a statue of Apollo crowned with a diadem. He 

 executed, also, a figure of Lyciscus, and one of the boy Lagon, w 

 full of the archness and low-bred cunning of the slave. Lycius 

 also made a figure of a boy burning perfumes. 



AVe have a young bull by MenaBchmus, 1 * pressed down be- 

 neath a man's knee, with its neck bent back :' j7 this Mcntcch- 



* 7 Dedicated by Augustus onthcCapitolinc Hill, in tho Eighth Ilcgiou of 

 the City. 



bs Sillig distinguishes three artists of this name. 



M St.e 15. v. c. 40, and 13. vii. c. 2. '* Tho " Sacrifice!* of the ox." 



51 The son also. 



92 Martial expresses the same idea in his Epigram, II. i. Kp. 7; but he 

 does r.ot refer to this statue.- B. Two copies of this Ganymede are still 

 in t licence at Home. 



50 r.iusanias informs us, B. i. and B. ix M that he saw tins statue in the 

 rrytanacum of Athens. 13. Autolycus obtained this victory about the 

 89th or 90th Olympiad. 



** It was iii honour of a victory gained by him in the pentathlon at tho 

 Grr ,-it Panathensea, that Callias gave the Symposium described by Xenophon. 



*'> Martial, B. i^. Ep. 51, where he is pointing at the analogy between 

 Irs pr.t ms and the works of tho most eminent sculptors, probably refers to 

 this statue : 



"Nos faciraus Bruti puerum, nos Lagona vivum." B. 

 The reading "Logonem," or "Langonem," certainly seems superior to 

 that of the Bamberg MS. " Mangonem," a "huckster." 



For some further mention of him, FCO end of B. iv. 



57 Dtla fosse has pointed out the resemblance between this statue and ono 

 of the works of Michael Angelo, representing L>avid kneeling ou Goliath, 

 and pruning Lack the giant's neck. L'. 



