Chap. 10.] EXHIBITION OF PICTURES BY THE EMPERORS. 233 



exhibition of pictures into such high estimation, by consecrating 

 an Ajax and u \Iedea w before the Temple of Venus Genetrix. 57 

 After him there was M. Agrippa, a man who was naturally more 

 attached to rustic simplicity than to refinement* Still, however, 

 "we have a magnificent oration of his, and one well worthy of 

 the greatest of our citizens, on the advantage of exhibiting in 

 public all pictures and statues ; a practice which would have 

 been far preferable to sending them into banishment at our 

 country-houses. Severe as he was in his tastes, he paid the 

 people of Cyzicus twelve hundred thousand sesterces for two 

 paintings, an Ajax and a Venus. He also ordered small paint- 

 ings to be set in marble in the very hottest part of his SVarin 

 Baths r* where they remained until they were removed a short 

 time since, when the building was repaired. 



CHAP. 10. WHAT PICTURKS THE KMPEKORS HAVE EXHIBITED 



ix r L*I{ LIC. 



The lato Emperor Augustus did more than all the others; 

 for ho placed in the most conspicuous part of his Forum, two 

 pictures, representing War and Triumph. 49 He also placed in 

 the Temple of his lather, 00 GU'sar, a picture of the Castors, 61 

 and one of Victory, in addition to those which we shall men- 

 tion in our account of the works-of the different artists. 6 " Ho 

 also inserted two pictures in the wall of the CuriuP which 

 he consecrated in theComitium ; M one of which was a Xemea w 

 seated npon a lion, and bearing a palm in her hand. Close to 



M Sec 1*. vii. c. 30. 



* 7 We have had this Temple referred to in B. ii. c. 23, B. vii. c. 30, 

 B. viii. c. 01, and B. ix. c. 07 : it is a^aiii mentioned in the fortieth Chap- 

 ter of this Hook, and in U. xxxvii. c. ">. 11. 



** In the *' Vaporarium/' namely. B. The Thernue of Agrippa were 

 in the Ninth Kegion of the City. 



5 - According to Hardonin, this was done after the battle of Actium, in 

 Tvhich Augustus subdued his rival Antony. 15. 



60 By adoption. The Temple of Julius Cieuar was in the Forum, in the 

 Eighth li.-gion of the City. 



61 See B". vii. c. 1>'J, B. x. c. GO, and B. xxxiv, c. 11. 



62 In Chapter 30 of this Book. B. 



w See U. vii. ec. -I5 t 51, 00, and B. xxxiv. c. 11. 



61 S- e B. vii. c. 54, B. xv. c. 20, B. xxxiii. c. 0, and B. xxxiv. c. 11. 



c5 This was the personification of the Neiuean fonst in Peloponnetu, 

 where lU-renles killed the lion, the first of the labours imposed upon him 

 by Kurystheus. B. 



