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also, of a youthful figure, which \vas so much admired by 

 Brutus of Philippi, that it received from him its surname. 7 



Theodorus of JSamos, 8 who constructed the Labyrinth, 9 cast 

 his own statue in brass; which was greatly admired, not only 

 for its resemblance, but for the extreme delicacy of the work. 

 In the right hand he holds a file, and with three fingers of tho 

 left, a little model of a four-horse chariot, which has since 

 Leen transferred to Pneneste: 10 it is so extremely minute, that 

 the whole piece, botli chariot and charioteer, may be covered 

 by the wings of a fly, which he also made with it. 



Xenocrates 11 was the pupil of Ticrates, or, as some say, of 

 Euthycrates : he surpassed them both, however, in tho number 

 of his statues, and was the author of some treatises on his art. 



Several artists have represented the battles fought by Attains 

 and Eumenes with the Galli ; 12 Isigonus, for instance, Pyro- 

 inachus, Stratonicus, and Antigonus, u who also wrote some 

 works in reference to his art. jBoethus, 14 although more cele- 

 brated for his works in silver, has executed a beautiful figure 

 of a child strangling a goose. The most celebrated of all the 

 works, of which I have here spoken, have been dedicated, for 

 some time past, by the Emperor Yespasianus in the Temple of 

 Peace, 15 and other public buildings of his. They had before 



7 This, it is supposed, is the statue to which Martial alludes in his 

 Epigram, mentioned in Note 95 above. 13. 



b There were two artists of this name, both natives of Samoa. Tho 

 present is the elder Theodorus, and is mentioned by Pausanius n.s having 

 teen the first to fuse iron for statues. )Ie is spoken of by numerous an- 

 cient authors, and by Pliny in B.vii. c. 57, B. xxxv. c. 46, and B. xxxvi. 

 c. 19, where he is erroneously mentioned as a Lenmian. 



* At Crete: Atln-nagoros mentions him in conjunction with Padalus. 



10 See B. vii. c. 21. Hardouin thinks that this bears reference to tho 

 conquest of the younger Marius by Sylla, mentioned in B. xxxiii. c. 5. 

 fuller and Meyer tr-at this story of the brazen statue as a fiction. 



11 Probably the same author that is mentioned at the end of B. xxxiii. 

 See also 1$. xixv. c. 36. 



11 The Galli here spoken of were a tribe of the Celts, who invaded Asia 

 Minor, and afterwards uniting with the Greeks, settled in a portion of 

 Bithynia, which hence acquired the name of Gallo-Graciaor Galatia. B. 



15 "See end of B. xxxiii. Attalus I., king of Pergamus, conquered the 

 Galli, B.C. 239. Pyromachus has been mentioned a few lints before, and 

 Stratonicus, in B. xxxiii. c. 55, alo by Atlit-ntuus. 



14 A native of Carthage. A work of his is mentioned by Cicero, In 

 Verrem 4, 14, and in the Culex, 1.66, attributed to Virgil. See also B. 

 xxiiii. c. 55. 1S In the Eighth Region of the City. 



