314 PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



some Sili'ni, 47 to be seen in the memorial buildings of Asinius 

 Pollio, and statues of Apollo and Neptune. 



Cephisodotus, 48 the son of Praxiteles, inherited his father's 

 talent. There is, by him, at Pcrgamus, a splendid Group 4 * of 

 Wrestlers, a work that has been highly praised, and in which 

 the fingers have all the appearance of being impressed upon 

 real flesh rather than upon marble. At Rome there are by 

 him, a Latona, in the Temple. of thePalatium ; a Venus, in the 

 buildings that are memorials of Asinius Pollio; and an JEscu- 

 1-ipius, and a Diana, in the Temple of Juno situate within 

 the Porticos of Octavia. 



Scopas* rivals these artists in fame : there are by him, a 

 Venus" and a Puthos, w statues which arc venerated at Samo- 

 thrace with the most august ceremonials. lie was also the 

 sculptor of the Palatine Apollo ; a Vestn seated, in the Gardens 

 of SiTvilius, and represented with two Bends 53 around her, a 

 work that has been highly praised ; two similar Bends, to be 

 S'*en upon the buildings of Asinius Pollio ; and some figures of 

 Canephori 54 in the same place. 13ut the most highly esteemed 

 of all his works, are those in the Temple erected by Cneius 

 Domitius, w in the Flaminian Circus; a figure of Neptune 

 himself, a Thetis and Achilles, Nereids seated upon dolphins, 

 cetaceous fishes, and 56 sea-horses, 67 Tritons, the train of Phor- 



most bitter servitude, as ". hewers of wood and drawers of water.'" Hence 

 the memorials of their servitude thus perpetuated in architecture. 



47 Or companions of Bacchus. See B. xxxv. c. 3G. 



4n S<e B. xxxiv. c. 19. 4S> * 4 Syn.plegma." 



50 Also mentioned in B. xxxiv. c. 19. 



51 Pausanias, B. I., speaks of three figures sculptured by Scopas ; Eros, 

 Himeroft, and Pothos. It is doubtful, however, whether they arc iden- 

 tical with those here spoken of. 



M Or " Deire." The name of " Phaethon" is added in most of the 

 editions, but Sillig rejects it as either a gloss, or a corruption of some 

 other n-ame. 



** ' Carapteras." This, which is probably the true reading, has been 

 restored by Sillig from the Bamberg AlS. The *a^rrr>}p was the bend or 

 turning, round the goal in the rac-eour.%e for chariots; and as Vesta was 

 symbolical of the earth, these figures, Sillig thinks, probably represented 

 the poles, as goals of the sun's course. 



M Figures of Virgins, carrying on their heads baskets filled witli ob- 

 ject* coiiM-crated to Minerva. 



" Dedicated to Neptune by Cueius Domkius Ahenobarbus, in the Ninth 

 Region of the City. 



'" t4 El" appears a preferable reading to the " aut" of the Bambcrg MS. 



57 ' Hippocampi." It is pretty clear that by this name he cannot mean 



