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in a condition of heavy sleep rather than engraved 

 on a bowl a Slumbering Satyr for Antipater.** 

 Next praise is awarded to Stratonicus of Cyzicus, 

 Tauriscus, also Ariston and Eunicus of Mitylene, 

 and Hecataeus, and, around the period of Pompey ^. 106 48 

 the Great, Pasiteles, Posidonius of Ephesus, Hedys, b.c 

 Thracides who engraved battle scenes and men in 

 armour, and Zopyrus who engraved the Athenian 

 Council of Areopagus and the Trial of Orestes ^ on 

 two goblets valued at 12,000 sesterces. There was 

 also Pytheas, one of whose works sold at the price of 

 10,000 denarii for two ounces : it consisted of an 

 embossed base of a bowl representing Odysseus 

 and Diomede in the act of steahng the Palladium. 

 The same artist also carved some very small drinking 

 cups in the shape of cooks known as ' The Chefs in 

 Miniature,' which it was not alloMed even to 

 reproduce by casts, so Hable to damage was the 

 fineness of the work. Also Teucer the artist in 

 embossed work attained celebrity, and all of a sudden 

 this art so declined that it is now only valued in old 

 specimens, and authority attaches to engravings 

 worn with use even if the very design is invisible. 



Silver becomes tarnished by contact with water 

 from springs containing minerals and by the salt 

 breezes, as happens also even in the interior regions 

 of Spain.*^ 



LVL In gold and silver mines also are formed orides mtj 

 the pigments yellow ochre and blue. Yellow ochre ^ W°J"^*' 

 is strictly speaking a slime. The best kind comes 

 from Avhat is called Attic slime ; its price is tAvo 

 denarii a pound. The next best is marbled ochre. 



" The sentence is probably misplaced. 

 •* Various oxides and hvdroxides of iron. 



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