Chap. 3G.] AUTISTS \VIIO PAINTED WITH THE PENCIL. 261 



bratcd in certain Greek lines, 67 "which, though they have out- 

 lived it, have perpetuated its fame. 69 The lower part of the 

 picture having become damaged, no one .could be found to 

 repair it; and thus did the very injury which the picture had 

 sustained, redound to the glory of the artist. .Time, however, 

 and dump at last effaced the painting, and Nero, in his reign, 

 hud -it replaced by a copy, painted by the hand of Dorotheus. 6 * 

 Applies also commenced another Venus for the people of Cos, :o 

 which would have outshone even the former one ; but death 

 invidiously prevented its completion, nor could any one be 

 found to complete the work in conformity with the sketches of 

 the outline. lie painted also, in the Temple of Diana at 

 Eph'.-s'is, Alexander the (ireat wielding the Thunderbolts, a 

 picture for which he received twenty talents of gold. The 

 fingers have all the appearance of projecting from the surface, 

 and the lightning seems to be darting from the picture. 

 And then, too, let the reader bear in mind that all these works 

 wen; executed by the aid of four 71 colours only. The price 

 paid in golden coin for this picture was ascertained by weight, 72 

 there being no speciiic sum agreed upon. 



lie also painted a Procession of the Megabyzus, 73 the priest 

 of Diana ut Ephesus ; and a Clitus 71 on Horseback, hasten- 

 ing to the combat, his Armour-bearer handing him his helmet 

 at his command. How many times he painted Alexander and 

 Philip, it would be quite superfluous to attempt to enumerate. 

 At Samos, there is a Habroir' by him, that is greatly admired ; 

 lit Jlhodes a McnandiT, 7 * king of Curia, and an Aucicus;" 7 at 



07 Tbep' nr' Krvrnil Kpigranis descriptive of it in the (Jrcok 

 6< * This, probably, is the meaning of *' Tali OJHTC tlum laudatur vcto 

 illustrato," words which have given much trouble to the commentators. 



nthology. 



'' Nothing further seems to he known of hint. 

 " (> " Cois." The first 



one was also painted for the people of Cos, by 

 whom it was ultimately sold to Augustus. 



71 Sic Chapt- T ?,'} of this Itook. That this is an erroneous assertion, 

 has boon shown in Note 7S above. 



" Probably the weight of the panel, frame, and ornamental appendages. 



73 This word was probably a title, meaning * Keeper of the temple." 

 Siraho tells us that the " mcgahyzi," or as lie calls them, the ' nirgalo- 

 byzi," wt-re eunuch prints in the Temple of Artemis, or Diana, at Kphesua. 



: * The favourite of Alexander, by whom lie was afterwards siain. 



' b Probably the name of a rieh sensualist who livtil at Ar^os. A son 

 of the Attic orator Lyrurgns, one of tbe soj liisfs, also bore this name. 



' f> This name is siippord by Sillig to have been inserted erroneously, 

 cither by Pliny, or by his tran-rribcrs. 



;; ilithtt tlie Argonaut ot li.ut name, who was killeJ by Lho Caledonian 



