BOOK XXXIII. Liv. 152-LV. T56 



schools for pages just at the point of adolescence 

 wear silver badges as a safegiiard, and women use 

 silver to wash in and scorn sitting-baths not made of 

 silver, and the same substance does service both 

 for our viands and for our baser needs ? If only 

 Fabricius ^ could see these displays of luxury — 

 women's bathrooms with floors of silver, leaving 

 nowhere to set your feet — and the women bathing 

 in company with men — if only Fabricius, who forbade ^ 

 gallant generals to possess more than a dish and a 

 saltcellar of silver, could see how nowadays the 

 rewards of valour are made from the utensils of 

 luxury, or else are broken up to make them ! Alas 

 for our present manners — Fabricius makes us blush ! 



LV. It is a remarkable fact that the art of chasing Famous 

 gold has not brought celebrity to anyone, whereas ^^/H"/-^^^ ^^ 

 persons celebrated for chasing silver are numerous. i^ork in 



silver 



The most famous however is Mentor of whom we 

 spoke above. Four pairs of goblets were all that he § 147 and 

 ever made, but it is said that none of them now ^^^" ^'^'' 

 survive, owing to the burning of the Temple of 

 Artemis of Ephesus ^ and of the Capitol.^ Varro 

 says in his writings that he also possessed a bronze 

 statue by this sculptor. Next to Mentor the artists 

 most admired were Acragas, Boethus and Mys. 

 Works by all of these exist at the present day in the 

 island of Rhodes — one by Boethus in the temple of 

 Athena at Lindus, some goblets engi*aved with 

 Centaurs and Bacchants by Acragas in the temple 

 of Father Liber or Dionysus in Rhodes itself, goblets 

 with Sileni and Cupids by Mys in the same temple. 

 Hunting scenes by Acragas on goblets also had 

 a great reputation. After these in celebrity is 

 Calamis, and Diodorus who was said to have placed 



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