CJinp. -10.] PAINTERS IN ENCAUSTIC. 277 



brunches. Hence it was, that when L. Paulus xEmilius, at'tor 

 the conquest of Perseus/ 9 requested the Athenians to send 

 him the most esteemed philosopher for the education of his 

 children, and a painter to represent his triumph, they made 

 choice of Metrodorus, declaring that he was eminently suited 

 for either purpose; u thing which Paulus admitted to be the 

 case, 



Timomachus of Byzantium, in the time of the Dictator Caesar, 

 painted an .Ajax* 1 and a Medea, which were placed by Cicsar 

 in the Temple of Venus Genetrix, having been purchased at 

 the price of eighty talents ; the value of the Attic talent 

 being, according to M. Yarro, equivalent to six thousand 

 denarii. An Orestes, also by Timomachus, an Iphigenia in 

 Tauris, and a Lecythion, a teacher of gymnastics, are equally 

 praised ; a I^ohle Family also ; and Two Men clothed in the 

 pallium/ 1 and about to enter into conversation, the one stand- 

 ing, the other in a sitting posture. It is in his picture, how- 

 ever of the Gorgon/- that the art appears to havo favoured 

 him most highly. 



Aristolaus, the son and pupil of Pausias, was one of the 

 painters in a more severe style : there are by him an Epami- 

 nomlas, a Perieles, a Medea, a Theseus, an emblematical 

 picture of the Athenian People, and a Sacrifice- of Oxeii. 

 Some persons, too, are pleased with the careful style of 

 Nicppltancs, 63 who was also a pupil of Pausias ; a carefulness, 

 however, which only artists can appreciate, as in other 

 respects he was harsh in his colours, HIM! too lavish ot'sil;** as 

 in bid picture, for example, of ^Esculapiua with his daughters, 

 Jlygin,^" -Kgle, and Panacea, his Jason, and his Sluggard, 

 known as the " Ocnos,"^ a man twisting a rope at one end 

 as an ass gnaws it at the other. As to Socrates/ 6 * his pictures 

 are, with good reason, universally esteemed. 



Having now mentioned the principal painters in either 



' n.c. 168. 



* Represented in a sitting posture, as mentioned lv Ovid, Trist. IT. 525. 

 ami by 1'hilos.tratus, Vit. Apl. H. II. c. 10. The Medea is d/>eribt-d in 

 an Epigram inB. iv. of the (Jm-k Anthology, imitnud by Ansonius, Kpigr. 

 22. " l See Note 0-5 above. M Medusa, slain by Perseus. 



" In the former editions, ** Mecophanes.'' 



**' Or oelire. Sic H. xxxiii. c. 50. 



**' llcnlth. Brightness, and Ali-lieal. " Qroek for * il 



&> * 1'rybably, lioin the context, a pupil, also, of 1'auaius. 



