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while that of Delos is seen in the Zeus or 

 Jupiter in the temple ** of Jupiter the Thunderer 

 on the Capitol. Aegina bronze was used hy 

 Myron and that from Delos by Polyclitus, who 

 were contemporaries ^ and fellow-pupils ; thus there 

 was rivalry between them even in their choice of 

 materials. 



VI. Aegina specialized in producing only the rhandeiiers. 

 upper parts " of chandeliers, and similarly Taranto 

 made only the stems, and consequently credit 

 for manufacture is, in the matter of these articles, 

 shared between these two locaUties. Nor are people 

 ashamed to buy these at a price equal to the 

 pay of a military tribune, although they clearly 

 take even their name from the hghted candles they 

 carry. At the sale of a chandelier of this sort by the 

 instructions of the auctioneer (named Theon) selling it 

 there was thrown in as part of the bargain the fuller 

 Clesippus a humpback and also of a hideous appear- 

 ance in other respects besides, the lot being bought by 

 a woman named Gegania for 50,000 sesterces. This 

 woman gave a party to show off her purchases, and 

 for the mockery of the guests the man appeared 

 with no clothes on ; his mistress conceiving an 

 outrageous passion for him admitted him to her bed 

 and later gave him a place in her will. Thus be- 

 coming excessively rich he worshipped the lamp- 

 stand in question as a divinity and so caused this 

 story to be attached to Corinthian lampstands in 

 general, though the claims of morahty were 

 vindicated by his erecting a noble tombstone to 

 perpetuate throughout the living world for all time 

 the memory of Gegania's shame. But although it is 

 admitted that there are no lampstands made of 



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