278 PLIST'S SATURAJ, IIISTOUT. 



Branch, 86 I must not pass in silence those who occupy the 

 next rank. Aristoclides decorated the Temple of Apollo at 

 Delphi. Antiphilus" 7 is highly praised for his picture of a 

 Boy blowing a Fire, which illumines an apartment handsomely 

 furnished, and throws a light"* upon the features of the 

 youth; a Spinning-room, with women plying their respective 

 Tasks ; r.nd a King Ptoleniicus hunting. .But his most famous 

 picture is his Satyr, clad in a panther's skin, and known as 

 the " Aposcopeuon."* Aristophon 80 has painted an Ancicus* 1 

 wounded by the Boar, with Astypale, tlie sharer of his grief; 

 and a picture- with numerous ligures, representing Priam, 

 Helena, Credulity, Ulysses, Deipholms, and (juile. w Andro- 

 hius lias painted a Scyllus 98 cutting away the anchors of the Per- 

 sian lleet : and Artemon a Dunne, with Kohhers in admiration ; 

 a Queen Stratonice ; 91 and a Hercules and Deianira. But the 

 finest of all this artist's works are those .now in the buildings 

 of Octavia ; a Hercules ascending to heaven, with the sanction 

 of the gods, from his funeral pile upon Mount (Eta in Doris; 

 aud the story of Laomedon and his bargain 5 ' 5 with Hercules 

 and Xeptune. Alcimachus has painted Dioxippus, 1 * who was 

 victorious in the pancratium at Olympia, without raising the 

 dust; a victory known to the Greeks as being gained ** aco- 

 niti."^ Coenus painted pedigrees. 1 * 



Ctesilochus, a pupil** 9 of Apelles, was famous for a burlesque 



* c In pencil painting, and in encaustic. 



67 Probably the same painter that is mentioned in Chapter 37. * 



IS An effect for which Sclialken is famous. 8y '* Shading his ryes." 



>J Son and pupil of Aglaopho, and brother of Polygnotus. He was 

 probably a native of Thusos. yl See Chapter 36, Note 77, page 201. 



*- *' I)olu:<." An emblematical picture evidently, probably representing 

 the events just prior to the capture of Troy. 



33 A famous diver, mentioned by Herodotus, IJ. yiii. c. 8, Pausanias, 

 P. x. c. 10, and Strabo, 15. ix. 



V1 Probably the wife of Seieucus, given by him to his son Antiochus. 

 See 15. vii. c.*37, Note 38. 



" That they should rebuild the walls of Troy. 



'* His contest witJj Corrajjus the Macedonian, wliom he defeated, is 

 mentioned also by JEiiaii, JJiodorus Siculus, Athenajus, nnd Quintus 

 Curtius. 



*' Gained " without raising tbe dust," i. e. without any difficulty. 



-* This is ).jrbaps the meaning of "stcmmata ;"*' heraldic pictures," 

 probably. See Juvenal, Sat. viii. 1. 2. 



y> Suidas sterns to mention lim, under the name of " Ctcsiocbus," as 

 tbe brother of Apclles. 



