CATACOMBS OF ALEXANDRIA. 337 



2. " The poets and artists feigned that Hercules sailed in a cup ;" 



ci TTOtrjTXi y.cA a ypixCpei; vrXeiv ocutov iv TTOTHjaiu su\jQo\oyyi<r:^v. Athenae. 



lib. xi. c. 5. Casaubon in his commentary says, per pictores, intel- 

 lige omnes simulacrorum artifices, p. 498. 



3. Antipater in an epigram speaks of four Victories sculptured on 

 the pediment of the house of Caius ; they were represented in the 

 act of ascending into the skies, koct iCo^oOov y^(x.~Tov riyoi;, " on the 

 well roofed pediment sculptured and painted," y. t. says Salmasius, 

 vocat, quod cielaturis et sculpturis domuura fastigia ornarentur, atque 

 etiam auro pingerentur*, sicut et templorum. Not. in H. A. S. p. 423. 



4. yDx-Tvrov tvttcv^ " dc sculpta imagine" accepit Reiske in epigram- 

 mate, says Jacobs. -)• Certe yoccTrro; banc interpretationem non respuit. 

 Vide Wolfium in Pi'oleg. ad Hom. xlv. 



* An Instance oC painted sculpture is pointed out to us by Paus.inias in tlie following 

 passage, Attic. 28. c. " The battle of the Lapitha; and the Centaurs on the shield of the 

 statue of Minerva, and whatever else is in relief there was executed, they say, by Mys; 

 and Parrhasius ])ainted for Mys this and the rest of his works; oa-a aXAa Io-tiv iTreipyatr/xe'va 

 Xeyoixyi TOpeucai Mvv. tu> Se Mt/i raura re xai ra, Xonru tuiv epyxv Ilxpluaiov xaTaypa4/ai. The 

 four first words of this quotation are entirely omitted in the version of Amasaeuf. Heyne 

 has produced some instances in which the sense of " work in relief" is given to 

 l7reipyao-|u.=va ; see also Pausanias, Attica, where he informs us, that on each side of the 

 helmet of Minerva in the Parthenon, ypanU Iktiv eTcupyxcrixevoi. Chandler translates im- 

 perfectly the passage, '•' on the sides were griffins." 



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