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is said to have been discovered after his decease, 

 wheii his heir broke open his cofFers, it having been 

 his practice to put aside a coin'^ of the value of one 

 gold denarius out of what he got as reward for his 

 handicraft for each statue. 



The art rose to incredible heights in success 

 and afterwards in boldness of design. To prove its 

 success I will adduce one instance, and that not of a 

 representation of either a god or a man : our own 

 generation saw on the Capitol, before it last went up a.d. 69. 

 in flames burnt at the hands of the adherents of 

 VitelUus, in the shrine of Juno, a bronze figure of a 

 hound hcking its wound, the miraculous excellence 

 and absolute truth to life of which is shown not only 

 by the fact of its dedication in that place but also 

 by the method taken for insuring it ; for as no sum 

 of money seemed to equal its value, the goverimient 

 enacted that its custodians should be answerable for 

 its safety with their hves. (XVHI.) Of boldness of 

 design the examples are innumerable. We see 

 enormously huge statues de\-ised, what are called Coiossai 

 Colossi, as large as towers. Such is the Apollo on 

 the Capitol, brought over by Marcus Lucullus from 73 b.o. 

 Apollonia, a city of Pontus, 45 ft. high, which cost 

 500 ^ talents to make ; or the Jupiter which the 

 Emperor Claudius dedicated in the Campus Martius, 

 which is dwarfed <^ by the proximity of the theatre 

 of Pompey ; or the 60 ft. high statue at Taranto 

 made by Lysippus. The remarkable thing in the 

 case of the last is that though it can be moved by 

 the hand, it is so nicely balanced, so it is said, that 

 it is not dislodged from its place by any storms. 

 This indeed, it is said. the artist himself provided 

 against by erecting a column a short distance from 



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