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twice made an attack upon Thurii ; for this the 289, 285 b.o 

 inhabitants of that place presented Aelius with a 

 statue and a crown of gold. The same people after- 

 wards presented Fabricius with a statue for having 

 rescucd thcm from a state of siege ; and various 283 b.o. 

 races successively in some such way placed them- 

 sehes under Roman patronage, and all discrimination 

 was so completely abrogated that even a statue of 

 Hannibal may be seen in three places in the city 

 within the walls of which he alone of its national 

 foes had hurled a spear." 



XVI. That the art of statuary was famihar to itaiian 

 Italy also and of long standing there is indicated by "'«^'"^*- 

 the statue of Hercules in the Cattle Market said to 

 have been dedicated by Evander, which is called 

 * Hercules Triumphant,' and on the occasion of 

 triumphal processions is arrayed in triumphal vest- 

 ments ; and also by the two-faced Janus, dedicated 

 by King Numa, which is worshipped as indicating 

 war and peace, the fingers of the statue being so 

 arranged as to indicate the 355 ^ days of the year, and 

 to betoken that Janus is the god of the duration of 

 time. Also there is no doubt that the so-called 

 Tuscanic images scattered all over the world were 

 regularly made in Etruria. I should have supposed 

 these to have been statues of deities only, were it not 

 that Metrodorus of Scepsis, who received his sur- 

 name<^ from his hatred of the very name of Rome, 

 reproached us with having taken by storm the city 

 of Volsinii for the sake of the 2000 statues which it 264 b.o. 

 contained. And it seems to me surprising that 



time). In such a case the VI could be represented by the 

 thumb and the first and second fingers of one hand. 

 " Misoromaeus, fiLaopojfialos, ' Roman-hater.' 



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