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taken up by the Avhole of the world, and the custom 

 proceeded to arise of having statues adorning the 

 pubHc places of all municipal towns and of per- 

 petuating the memory of human beings and of 

 inscribing lists of honours on the bases to be read 

 for all time, so that such records should not be 

 read on their tombs only. Soon after a pubhcity 

 centre was estabHshed even in private houses 

 and in our own halls : the respect felt by cHents 

 inaugurated this method of doing honour to their 

 patrons. 



X. In old days the statues dedicated were simply ^^^^ «"«^ 

 clad in the toga. Also naked figures holding spears, styies. 

 made from models of Greek young men from the 

 g}Tnnasiums — what are called figures of Achilles — 

 became popular. The Greek practice is to leave the 

 figure entirely nude, whereas Roman and miHtary 

 statuary adds a breastplate : indeed the dictator "^9-44 b.c. 

 Caesar gave permission for a statue wearing a cuirass 

 to be erected in his honour in his Forum." As for 

 the statues in the garb of the Luperci, they are 

 modern innovations, just as much as the portrait- 

 statues dressed in cloaks that have recently appeared. 

 Mancinus ^ set up a statue of himself in the dress 

 that he had wom when surrendered to the 

 enemy. It has been remarked by writers that the 

 poet Lucius Accius also set up a very tall statue of ^^'^' ^^ 

 himself in the shrine of the Latin Muses, although 

 he was a very short man. Assuredly equestrian 

 statues are popular at Rome, the fashion for them 

 ha\ing no doubt been derived from Greece ; but 

 the Greeks used only to erect statues of winners 

 of races on horse-back at their sacred contests, 

 although subsequently they also erected statues of 



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