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the length of causing him to build a city to the 

 memory of the noble steed, a city to which he 

 gave the name Bucephala? 



The handsome bronze discovered in Hercu- 

 laneum is popularly supposed to represent the 

 figures of Alexander and Bucephalus. The work 

 probably of Lysippus — whom Alexander himself 

 ordered to produce a scene representing a fight 

 during the great battle of Granicus — it is 

 extremely interesting. 



A pleasing anecdote told of Alexander and 

 Bucephalus, and more likely to be true than are 

 the majority of the tales that are related of this 

 horse and its owner, is to the effect that upon 

 one occasion the king went to inspect a portrait 

 of himself mounted on his favourite charger, that 

 the distinguished painter, Apelles, had just com- 

 pleted. 



Nettled at Alexander's scant praise of his work 

 — for we are told the picture was so lifelike that 

 even Bucephalus neighed when first he saw it — 

 Apelles turned to the king with the rebuke : 



" I fear me, your Majesty, that your horse is a 

 better judge of painting than his noble master." 



What retort the king made is not recorded, 

 but the story recalls one of a similar nature re- 

 lated of the famous artist, Pauson, who when 

 ordered to produce a picture of a horse rolling on 

 its back, sent to his patron a picture of a horse 

 galloping madly through a cloud of dust. 



