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Q. reditis, 44 who had been honoured with the consulship ami a 

 triumph, and who had been named hy the Dictator Cii'sar as 

 co-heir with Atigu&tu*, had a grandson, wlio being dumb from 

 his birth, the orator Messala, to whose family his grandmother 

 belonged, recommended that he should be brought up as a 

 painter, a proposal which was also approved of by the lute 

 Kmperor Augustus. lie died, however, in his youth, alter 

 having made great progress in the art. iBut the high estima- 

 tion in which painting eame to be held at Koine, was prin- 

 cipally due, in my opinion, to M. Valerius Maximus Messala, 

 who, iii the year of the City, <I ( JO, was the lirsl to exhibit u 

 painting to the public; a picture, namely, of the battle in 

 which he had defeated the Carthaginians and Hiero in Sicily, 

 upon one side of the Curia Jlostilia." 16 The same thing was done, 

 too, by L. Seipio, 47 who placed in the Capitol a painting of tho 

 victory which he had gained in Asia ; but his brother African us, 

 it is said, was offended at it, and not without reason, for his 

 POII had been taken prisoner in the battle. 4 * Lucius JIo>lilius 

 Mancinus, 4 * too, who had been the iirst to enter Carthage at the 

 final, attack, gave a very similar offence to ./Kmilianus,' 1 -'* by 

 exposing in the Forum a painting of that city and the attack 

 upon it, he himself standing near the picture, and describing 

 to the spectators the various details of the siege; a piece of 

 complaisance which secured him the consulship at the ensuing 

 Comitia. 



The stage, loo, which was erected for the games celebrated 

 by Claudius Pulcher, 50 brought the art of painting into great 

 admiration, it being observed that the ravens were so de- 

 ceived by the resemblance, as to light upon, the decorations 

 which were painted in imitation of tiles. 



45 Q. Pcdius was cither nephew, or groat nephew of Julius Cirsar, nrul 

 had tho command under him in the (Jallic War; lie is mentioned by C;esur 

 in his Commentaries, :md hy other writers of this period. B. 



40 Originally the j>uluce of Tuilus Jiostilius, in 'the Second Region of 

 the City. 



47 Aftiuticus, the brother of the elder Afrrcnnui, 1J. 



4b Jt was before the dccJMve battle near Mount Sipylus, that the ?on of 

 Africanus was made prisoner. Jvinj; Antiochus receiviil him wilh hi^'h 

 rt.-jxet, loaded him wilh |iresi-nK and M-nt him to Koine. U. 



*> Jle wa.- Ir^atus under the consul I,. ('idpurniu?> 1'iso, ir: the 'ihird 

 1'unic War, and commanded tin; Koman fleet, ile was elected t'o^aul 

 n. c. 11.5. 4J * 'J'he younger Scipip AtVicaims. 



b>) We lenrn from Yal'-riiis Maxiinut. that C. 1'uleher was the first tu 

 vary the bcei:cs of the btajjc with a inuubcr of colours. ]j t 



