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stances, no doubt, would have made but one colour of several, 

 if coloured tissues luid been put into it, is here made to yield 

 several colours from a single dye. At the same moment that 

 it dyes the tissues, it boils in the colour ; and it is the fact, 

 that material which has been thus submitted to the action of 

 iire becomes stouter and more serviceable for wear, than it 

 would have been if it had not been subjected to the process 



CHAP. 43. (12.) THE INVKNTOItS OF THE ART OF MODELLING. 



On painting we have now said enough, and more than enough; 

 but it will be only proper to append some accounts of the 

 plastic art. Butades, a potter of JSicyon, was the first who in- 

 vented, at Corinth, the art of modelling portraits in the earth 

 which he used in his trade. It was through his daughter that 

 lie made the discovery ; who, being deeply in love with a young 

 man about to depart on a long journey, traced the profile of 

 his face, as thrown upon the wall by the light of the lamp. Upon 

 seeing this, her fat JUT filled in the outline, by compressing clay 

 upon the surface, and so made a face in relief, which he then 

 hardened by fire along with other articles of pottery. This 

 model, it is said, was preserved in the Nymphajum 39 at Corinth, 

 until the destruction of that city by Mummius. 40 Others, again, 

 assert that the first inventors of the plastic art were llhcecus" 

 and Theodorus,** at Samos, a considerable period before the ex- 

 pulsion of the JJacchiadnc from Corinth : and that Damaratus,, 41 

 on taking to flight from that place and settling in Etruria, where 

 he became father of Tarquinius, who was ultimately king of 

 the Koman people, was accompanied thither by the modellers 

 Euchir, 44 Diopus, and Eugrammus, by whose agency the art 

 was first introduced into Italy. 



59 Or Temple of the Xymphs. The daughter of Butades is called " Core" 

 by Athennjronis. 40 Sec B. xxxiv. c. 3. 



41 Son of rhil.Tiis. lie is mentioned by Pausanias, B. viii. c. 14, nnd 

 by Herodotus, I>. iii. c. 60, as the architect of a line temple at Samos, 

 and, with Sinilis and Thcodoms, of the Labyrinth at Lemnos. 



42 Mentioned also in 15. xxxiv. c. 19. Pliny is in error here in using the 

 word " plusticc ;" lor it was the art of 'casting brass, and not that of making 

 pluter casts, that these artists invented. 



43 See Chapter 5 of this Book, lie, is said by Pionvsius of Ilalicar- 

 iia'sus, B. iii., to have been -a member of the family of tLe Bacchiadne. 



41 A different person, probably, from the one of the same name mentioned 

 in B. \ii. c. 60. 



