Chap. 40,] PAIN'TEIIS IN ENCAUSTIC. 275 



Theseus; with reference to \yhich he remarked that the Theseus 

 of 1-arrhasius hud been fed upon roses, but his own upon beef. l 

 There ure also at Ephesus some famous pictures by him ; an 

 Ulysses, in his feigned madness, yoking together an ox and a 

 horse ; Men, in an altitude of meditation, wearing the pal- 

 lium ;* and a Warrior, sheathing his sword. 



At the same time, also, flourished Cydias; 63 for whose picture 

 of the ArgonauUu the orator llortensius paid one hundred and 

 forty-four thousand sesterces, and had a shrine constructed 

 expressly for its reception on his estate at Tuscuhim/' 4 There 

 was also Aiitidotus, a pupil of Euphranor, by whom there is, 

 at Athens, a Combatant armed with a shield ; a "\Vrestler, also ; 

 and a Trumpeter, a work which has been considered u most 

 exquisite production. 



Antidotus, as a painter, was more careful in his works than 

 prolific, and his colouring was of a severe style. Jiis prin- 

 cipal glory was his having been the instructor of Xicia* 55 of 

 Athens; who was a most careful painter of female portraits, 

 and a strict observer of light and shade/** making it his es- 

 pecial care that the figures in his pictures should appear in 

 the boldest relief. His works are, a JS'emea, which was 

 brought from Asia to Koine by Silanus, and was placed in 

 the Curia, as already stated ; OT a Father Liber, 6 "* in the 

 Temple 1 ' 1 * of Concord ; a llyacinthus/ which the Emperor 

 Augustus was so delighted with, that he took it away with 

 him after the capture of Alexandria; for which reason also it 

 was consecrated in the Temple 71 of Augustus by the Emperor 

 Tiberius ; and a Danae. At Ephesus, there is a tomb by 

 him of a megubyzus, 7 - or priest of the Ephesian Diana ; and at 



61 " Carne." Beef, according to Plutarch, \vas tlic flesh mentioned. 



e2 The dress of the Greek philosophers, more particularly. 



M 1'orn in the island of Cythnos, one of the Cyclades. lie is supposed 

 to be theartiitt imutiom-d bv Thcophrastus, ]>e Lapid. c. 9o. 



w It i.s supposed by Sillig, from Dio Cassius, U. liii. c. 27, that this 

 painting was transit! red by M. Vipsanius Agrippa, to the Portico of Nep- 

 tune. 



64 Sec -Chapter 20 of this Book, where he is mentioned as having been 

 tho first artist who used "usta" or burnt ceruse. From Puusanias we 

 learn that his remains were interred at Athens, in the road h-ading to the 

 Academia. ^ Chiaroscuro. c7 In Chapter 10 of this Uoi-k. 



68 Bacchus. c> Jn the Kighth Region of the City. 



Spoken of by Puusania*, It. iii. c. ID. " l In the Forum at Rome. 



72 Sec Chapter 30 of tbii Uook, Note 73, p. 1>G1. 



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