318 PLINY'S NATURAL HISTOUT. [Book XXXVT, - 



the Temple of Diana there, behind the sanctuary. The keepers 

 of the temple recommend persons, when viewing it, to be 

 careful of their eyes, so remarkably radiant t is the marble. 

 Iso less esteemed, too, are the statues of the Graces, 83 in the 

 Propylamm* 4 at Athens; the workmanship of Socrates tho 

 sculptor, a different person from the painter* 5 of that name, 

 though identical with him in the opinion of some. As to 

 Myron,* who is so highly praised for his works in bronze, 

 there is by him at Smyrna, An Old Woman Intoxicated, a 

 work that is held in high estimation. 



A.-inius Pullio, a man of a warm and ardent temperament, 

 was determined that the buildings which he erected as memo- 

 rials of himself should be made as attractive as possible ; for 

 here we see groups representing, Nymphs carried off by Centaurs, 

 a work of Arccsilas : b7 the Thespiades, 1 " 8 by Cleomenes : 8 * Oceanus 

 and Jupiter, by Heniochus : the Appiades, 91 by Stephamis : 112 

 Hermerotes,* 3 by Tauriscus, not the chaser in silver, already 91 

 mentioned, but a native of Trailed: 19 a Jupiter Hospitalis 96 by Pa- 

 pylus, a pupil of Praxiteles : Zethus and Amphion, with l)iree, 

 the Bull, 5 * 7 ami the halter, all sculptured from a single block of 



M " Charites." " " Torch," or " Vestibule" of the Citadel at Athens. 



65 Mentioned in B. xxxv. c. 40. The present Socrates is identified by 

 Pau^anias, H. i. c. 22, and H. ix. c. '25, and by Diogenes Laertiun, II. ii. 

 c. 19, with the great Athenian philosopher of that name, HOII of the statuary 

 Sophroniscus : but the question as to his identity is very doubtful. l)iogtiici 

 J_aertius adds, that whereas artists had previously represented the Graces 

 nuked, Socrates sculptured them with drapery. 



** See K xxxiv. c. 19. M See B'. xxxv. c. 45. 



^ Or Muses of Thespioc, in I'oDotia. 



* 9 There have been several distinguished sculptors, all of tin's nnnip. 

 A statuary, son of Apollodorus the Athenian, made the celebrated Venus 

 dc Medici. It is the opinion of Visconti and Thiersch, that the artist here 

 mentioned flourished before the destruction of Corinth. 



*' This name is doubtful, and nothing is known relative to the artist. 



* l '* llippiades*' is the old reading, which balechamps considers to 

 mean u Amazons." The Appiades Were Nymphs of the Appian Sjring, 

 near the temple of Venus Geiietrix, in the Forum of Julius Ctrsar. See 

 Ovid, Art Am. B. i. 1. 81, and IJ. iii. 1. 4ol ; and Hem. Am. 1. C59. 



* From an insoription on a statue still extant, he is supposed to have 

 been a pupil of Pusi teles, and eonsequently to have flourislietl about u.c. 25. 



93 Figures in which the form and attributes of Ucrnies, or Mercury, and 

 Eros, or Cupid, were combined, Ilardouin thinks. 



'* In B. xxxiii. c. 55. 95 In Caria : see B. v. c. 29. 



96 Or 44 Xeiiias" " Presiding over hospitality," or '* Protector of stran- 



The story was, that Zethus and Amphion bouml Dirce, queen of 



