BOOK XXXIV. XIX. 57-59 



known sets of verses — inasmuch as most men owe 

 their reputation more to someone else's talent than 

 to their own. His other works include Ladas " 

 and a * Discobolos ' or Man Thro^ving a Discus, and 

 Perseus, and The Sawyers,^ and The Satyr MarveUing 

 at the Flute and Athene,'' Competitors in the Five 

 Bouts at Delphi, the AU-round Fighters,*^ the 

 Heracles now in the house of Pompey the Great at 

 the Circus Maximus. Erinna ^ in her poems 

 indicates that he even made a memorial statue of a 

 tree-cricket and a locust. He also made an Apollo 

 which was taken from the people of Ephesus by 

 Antonius the Triumvir but restored to them by his 

 late lamented Majesty Augustus in obedience to a 

 warning given him in a dream. Myron is the first 

 sculptor who appears to have enlarged the scope 

 of reahsm, being more prolific in his art than 

 Polycleitus and being more careful in his propor- 

 tions./ Yet he himself so far as surface configura- 

 tion goes attained great finish, but he does not seem 

 to have given expression to the feeHngs of the mind, 

 and moreover he has not treated the hair and the 

 pubes vvith any more accuracy than had been 

 achieved by the rude work of olden days. 



Myron was defeated by the Itahan Pythagoras pythagoras 

 of Reggio with his All-round Fighter which stands at <>/ ^f*^9'>^m. 

 Delphi, with which he also defeated Leontiscus^; 

 Pythagoras also did the runner Astylos which is on 

 show at Olympia ; and, in the same place, the 

 Libyan ^* as a hoy holding a tablet ; and the nude 

 Man Holding Apples, while at Syracuse there is his 

 Lame Man, which actually makes people looking 

 at it feel a pain from his ulcer in their own leg, and 



* Mnascas of Cyrene. Paus. VI. 13, 7; 18, 1. 



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