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with PythodoriiSjOf Polydeuces with Hermollius, and of another 

 Pythodorus with Artcmon ; some of the statues, also, are hy 

 Aphrodisius of Trallcs, who worked alone. The Pantheon of 

 Agrippn has been decorated by Diogenes of Athens, and the 

 Caryatides, by him, which form the columns of that temple, an* 

 looked upon as muster- pieces of excellence: .the *ame, too, 

 with the statues that IIPJ placed upon the roof, though, in 

 con>c<|ucnce of the height, they have not had an opportunity 

 of being so well appreciated. 



Without glory, and excluded from every temple, is the 

 statue of Hercules, 15 in honour of whom the Carthaginians 

 were accustomed, to sacrifice human victims every year : it 

 stands upon the ground before the entrance of the Portico of 

 the Xations. 16 There were erected, too, near the Temple of 

 Felicity, the statues of the Thespian 17 Muses; of one of which, 

 according to Varro, Junius Pisciculus, a .Roman of equestrian 

 rank, became enamoured. Pasiteles, ls too, speaks in terms of 

 high admiration of them, the artist who wrote live Books on 

 the most celebrated works throughout the world. Born upon 

 the Grecian 1 " shores of Italy, and presented with the Konran 

 citizenship granted to the cities of those parts, Pasi teles con- 

 structed the ivory statue of Jupiter which is now in the Temple 

 of Metelltis,'-' on the road to the Campus Martins. It so hap- 

 pened, that being one day at the Docks,- 1 where there weiv 

 some wild beasts from Africa, while he was viewing through 

 the bars of a cage a lion which he was engaged in drawing, a 

 panther made its escape from another cage, to the no small 

 danger of this most careful artist. Jle executed many other 

 works, it is said, but we do not iind the names of them speci- 

 fically mentioned. 



15 This was an ancient and hideous idol, probably. Plato, Diodorus 

 Siculus, riautus, J,aclanlius, Arnobius, "d Isidorus, all concur in saying 

 that it was Saturn in honour of whom human victims were immolated. 



lei " Ad Xationes." A portico built .by Augustus, and adorned with 

 statues representing various nations. 



17 "Tbtsptades. T hey were brought by Munmiius from Thcspiac, in 

 Bccotia. iSee 1>. xxxiv. c. 19, and Note 88, above. 



ls Sec B. xxxv. c. 45, and end of B. xxxiii. 19 Magna Groecia. 



20 Built by Metcllus Maeedonicus. 



21 "Navaliu." Tliis was the name of Pertain doek* at Kome, xvhtre 

 ships were built, laid up, and refilled. They were attached lo ihe Kin- 

 puiium, without the Tri^eminiauOate, and were connected with the Tiber. 



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