PLINV : NATURAI. HISTORY 



versibus laudata, quando alicno plerique ingenio 

 magis quara suo commendantur. fecit et Ladam ^ 

 et di^cobolon et Perseum et pristas ^ et Satyrum 

 admirantem tibias et Minervam, Delphicos penta- 

 thlos, pancratiastas, Herculem, qui est apud circum 

 maximum in aede Pompei Magni. fecisse et 

 cicadae monumentum ac locustae carminibus suis 



58 Erinna significat, fecit et Apollinem, quem ab 

 triumviro Antonio sublatum restituit Ephesiis divus 

 Augustus admonitus in quiete. primus hic multi- 

 plicasse veritatem videtur, numerosior in arte quam 

 Polyclitus et in ^ symmetria dihgentior, et ipse tamen 

 corporum tenus curiosus animi sensus non expressisse, 

 capilhim quoque et pubem non emendatius fecisse, 

 quam rudis antiquitas instituisset. 



59 Mcit eum Pythagoras lleginus ex Italia pancratiaste 

 Delphis posito ; eodem vicit et Leontiscum. fecit 

 et stadiodromon Astylon, qui Olympiae ostenditur, 

 et Libyn^ puerum tenentem tabellam^ eodem loco, 

 et mala ferentem nudum, Syracusis autem claudi- 

 cantem, cuius ulceris dolorem sentire etiam spectantes 



^ Ladam Benndorf : canem. ^ pyctas Ldschke. 



3 et in ald. : del. et Sillig. 



* Libyn Ilermolaus Barharus: lybin B: lipin aut lympin 

 aut iolpum rell. ° tabellam B : tabellas rell. 



" Ladas was a famoiis runner. But the !MSS. give canem, 

 'dog.' Copies of M^^ron^s Discoholos are extant. 



^ It is possible that Pliny wrote ' the Boxers.' 



''■ Probably a group of Marsyas and Athene, of which copies 

 exist. 



<* Experts in both boxing and wrestling. 



* This absurd statement is caused by a confusion of ^lvpwv 

 and a girl Mupci {Anth. Pal. VII. 190 — Myro makes a tomb 

 for her pet insect). 



^ For another interpretation see E. Gardner, Classical Re- 

 vieu\ II. 69. " I>contisfns was an atliloto, not an artist. 



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