Chop. 4.] AHTIST8 VfllO EXCELLED IN SCULPTURE. 313 



being seen from every point of view ; an arrangement which 

 was favoured by the goddess herself, it is generally believed. 

 Indeed, from whatever point it is viewed, its execution is 

 equally worthy of admiration. A certain individual, it is 

 said, became enamoured of this statue, and, concealing himself 

 in the temple during the night, gratified his lustful passion 

 upon it, traces of which are to be seen in a stain left upoi^ 

 the marble. 37 



There are also at Cnidos some other statues in marble, tho 

 productions of illustrious artists ; a Father Liber 38 by Bryaxis, 3 * 

 another by Scopas/ and a Minerva by the same hand: indeed, 

 there is no greater proof of the supreme excellence of the 

 Venus of Praxiteles than the fact that, amid such productions 

 as these, it is the only one that we generally iiud noticed. 

 ]jy Praxiteles, too, there is a Cupid, a statue which occa- 

 sioned 11 one of the charges brought by Cicero against Yerres, 

 and for the sake of seeing which persons used to visit Thespite: 

 at the present day, it is to be seen in the Schools*- of Octavia. 

 By the same artist there is also another Cupid, without 

 drapery, at Parium, a colony of the Propontis ; equal to tho 

 Cnidian Venus in the fineness of its execution, and said to have 

 been the object of a similar outrage. For one Alcetas, a 

 Khudian, becoming deeply enamoured of it, left upon the 

 marble similar traces of the violence of his passion. 



At Home there are, by Praxiteles, a Flora, a Triptolemus, 

 and a Ceres, in the Gardens of Servilius ; statues of Good 

 Success 13 and Good Fortune, in the Capitol ; as also some 

 Mieijades, 11 and figures known as Thyiadea 45 and Caryatides ;* 



37 Lucian, Valerius Muximus, and Athenoms, tell the same improbable 

 story, borrowing it from I'osidippus the Listurian. ** Bacchus. 



'*'' See 15. xxxiv. c. ID. * Sec B. xxxiv. c. 10. 



41 riiny is mistaken here : for in the time of Cicero, as we find in Vcrr. 

 4, 2, 4, the Thr.spian Cupid was still at Thespkc, in Bxotia, where it had 

 been dedicated by 1'hryne, and was not removed to Rome till the time of 

 the emperor*, it wus'the Parian Cupid, originally made for the people of 

 Parium, that, after coming into the possession ol lleius, a rich Sicilian, 

 was forcibly tak.-n from him by Yerrcs. 



* 2 Where it was destroyed by lire in the reign of Titus. Sco B. xxxir. 

 C. 37. 4a See 15. xixiv. c. 19. 



* Frantic Bacchantes. 44 Sacrificing Bacchantes. 



48 The name given in architecture to figures of females employed as 

 columns in edifices. The Spartans, on taking the city of Ciirya, in Laco- 

 nia, nw&sacred the male inhabitants, and condemned the females to tut* 



