Chap. 10.] CELEBRATED WORKS IX BRASS. 187 



Tisicmtes* 2 executed a two-horse chariot in brass, in which 

 Piston afterwards placed the figure of a female. Piston also 

 made the statues of Mars and Mercury, which are in the 

 Temple of Concord at Home. Ko one can commend Perillus ; 43 

 more cruel even than the tyrant Phalaris 14 himself, he made 

 for him a brazen trill, asserting that when a man was enclosed 

 in it, and lire applied beneath, the cries of the man would 

 resemble the roaring of a bull : however, with a cruelty in 

 this instance marked by justice, the experiment of this torture 

 was first tried upon himself. To such a degree did this man 

 degrade the art of representing gods and men, an art more 

 adapted than any other to refine the feelings ! Surely so many 

 persons had not toiled to perfect it in order to make it an instru- 

 ment of torture ! Hence it is that the works of Perillus are- 

 only preserved, in order that whoever sees them, may detest 

 the hands that made 'them. 



Sthennis 44 made the statues of Ceres, Jupiter, and Minerva, 

 which are now in the Temple of Concord ; also figures of ma- 

 trons weeping, adoring, and offering sacrifice ; Simon 46 exe- 

 cuted figures of a dog and an archer. Stratonicus, 47 the chaser 

 in silver, made some figures of philosophers ; and so did both 

 of the artists named Scopas. 48 



The following artists have made statues of athletes, armed 

 men, hunters, and sacriiicers Baton, 49 Euchir, 5 " (jlaucide?, 51 

 Heliodorus,* 3 Jlicanus, Leophon, Lyson, 5 -* Leon, Menodoru?, 54 



42 Already mentioned as a successful pupil of Lysippus. 



43 lie was probably a native of Agiigentum, and flourished about B.C. 

 5GO. The brazen bull of Perillus, aiid his unhappv fate, are recorded by 

 many of the cla.-sical writer?, nmoiii? others by Valerius Maxioius, B. ix. 

 cc. 2, 9, and by Ovid, Art. Am. B. i.'ll. 6<33-4. B. 



44 Sec 15. vii. c. 57. 



45 Mentioned at the commencement of this Chapter. 



4C A statuary of /K^ina, mentioned also by Vausanias, B. v. c. 27, in 

 connexion with Dionysius of Argos. lie nourished about Olymp. 76. 



47 Already mentioned in B. xxxiii. c. 65, and previously in this Chapter. 



4S "Seopas uterque." Silli^, Diet. Aneient*Artists, expresses an opi- 

 nion that these words are an interpolation ; but in his last edition of 

 Pliny, he thinks with M. Ian, that some words are wanting expressive of 

 the branch in which these artists excelled. Sec also B. xxxvi. cc. o, 14. 



49 He is previously mentioned in this Chapter. See p. 179. 



50 An Athenian arti-t, son of Kubulides. lie is also mentioned by 

 Fausanias. 5l A Lacedaemonian artist, also mentioned by Pausanias. 



w Stc 1?. xxxvi. c. 4. ^ Mentioned also by Pausanias, B. i. c. 3. 



54 Trobably not the Athenian statuary mentioned by Tausaiiias, B. ii. 

 c. 7. Sec Sillig, Diet. Aueieiit Artists. 



