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that the art of sculpture must have necessarily originated about 

 the commencement of the era of the Olympiads. Ilipponax 

 being a man notorious for his ugliness, the two artists, by way 

 of joke, 15 exhibited a statue of him for the ridicule of the pub- 

 lie. Indignant at this, the poet emptied upon them all the 

 bitterness of his verses ; to such an extent indeed, that, as 

 some believe, they were driven to hang themselves in despair. 

 This, however, is not the fact ; for, at a later period, these 

 artists executed a number of statues in the neighbouring islands; 

 at Delos for example, with an inscription subjoined to the effect, 

 that Chios was rendered famous not only by its vines 1 *'" but by 

 the works of the sons of Archerinus as well. The people of 

 Laso's 16 still show a Diana that was made by them ; and we 

 find mention also made of a Diana at Chios, the work of their 

 hands : it is erected on an elevated spot, and the features ap- 

 pear stern to a person as ho enters, and joyous as he departs. 

 At Home, there are some statues by these artists on the summit 

 of the Temple 17 of the Palatine Apollo, and, indeed, in most of 

 the buildings that were erected by the late Emperor Augiibtus. 

 At Delos and in the Ible of Lesbos there were formerly some 

 sculptures by their father to be seen. Ambracia too, Argos, 

 audCleomc, were tilled with productions of the sculptor Dipcenus. 

 All these artists, however, used nothing but the white marble 

 of the Isle of i'aros, a stone which was known as " lychnites" 

 at first, because, according to Yarro, it was cut in the quarries 

 by lamplight. 18 Since their time, many other whiter marbles 

 have been discovered, and very recently that of the quarries 

 of Luna. 19 AVith reference to the marble of Paros, there is one 

 Very marvellous circumstance related ; in a single block that 

 was split with wedges, a iigure' :0 of Silenusinade its appearance. 



15 Another cause of the quarrel is said to have been the refusal of Bn- 

 palus to give hii daughter in marriage to Ilipponax. This quarrel is re- 

 ferred to in the Greek Anthology, b. iii. Epigr. 2b*. 



l *' See 15. xiv. c. 9. 1(> See 1?. iv. c. 20. 



17 Dedicated hy Aii'justus, in the Tenth, Region &f the City. 



18 Ai>\i't biing the Greek for a "lamp." 



19 Sec 1). iii. c. 8 : now known as the marble of Massa and Carrara, of 

 a bluish white, and a very Cue grain. 



20 A similar case has hedi cili d, in tho figure of St. Jerome, to be seen 

 on a stone in the Grotto of Our Saviour tit iJethlehem, nnd in a represen- 

 tation of the Crucifixion, in the Church of St. George, at Venice. A mi- 

 niuturo resembling that of the pott Chaucer is to be &ccu on the surface of 

 a small stoue in the British Museum. 



