PLINY : NATURAL HISTORY 



55 Polyclitus Sicyonius, Hageladae discipulus, dia- 

 dumenum fecit moUiter iuvenem, centum talentis 

 nobilitatum, idem et doryphorum viriliter puerum. 

 fecit et ^ quem canona artifices vocant liniamenta 

 artis ex eo petentes veluti a lege quadam, solusque 

 hominum artem ipsam fecisse artis opere iudicatur. 

 fecit et destringentem se et nudum telo ^ incessentem 

 duosque pueros item nudos, talis ludentes, qui 

 vocantur astragalizontes et sunt in Titi imperatoris 

 atrio — quo ^ opere nullum absolutius plerique iudi- 

 cant; — item Mercurium qui fuit Lysimacheae, 



56 Herculem, qui Romae, hagetera * arma sumentem, 

 Artemona, qui periphoretos appellatus est. hic 

 consummasse hanc scientiam iudicatur et toreuticen 

 sic erudisse, ut Phidias aperuisse. proprium eius 

 est, uno crure ut insisterent signa, excogitaose, 

 quadrata tamen esse ea ait Varro et paene ad 

 exemplum. 



57 Myronem Eleutheris natum, Hageladae et ipsum 

 discipulum, bucula maxime nobilitavit celebratis 



^ del. et Urlichs functo post puerum sublato. 



2 telo Benndorf : talo. 



8 quo cd. Par. 6801 : hoc lan : duo. hoc B : om. rell. 



* hagetera B : agetera rell. : alexetera Hardouin : Anteum 

 6 terra {om. arma) ed. vett. 



" Of Argos, says Plato (Protag. 31 lc). But his family 

 moved to Sicyon. He cannot however have been a pupil of 

 Hagelades (§ 49). Copies of Polycleitus' Diadumenos and of 

 his Doryphoros are extant. Pliny confuses the great Poly- 

 cleitus with P. the younger, likewise of Argos, who Uved in 

 the 4th century b.c. 



** We know however that this ' model statue ' or ' standard ' 

 was the Doryphoros just mentioned. 



* Or, ' in a single work embodied the principles of his art.' 

 P. wrote a treatise on art, called it Kav(xjv, then made his 



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