BOOK XXXIV. XIX. 59-62 



ako Apollo shooting the Python with his Arrows, 

 a Man " playing the Harp, that has the Greek name 

 of The Honest Man ^ given it because when 

 Alexander took Thebes a fugitive successfully hid 335 b.c. 

 in its bosom a sum of gold. Pythagoras of Ileggio 

 was the first sculptor to show the sinews and veins, 

 and to represent the hair more carefully. 



There was also another '^ Pythagoras, a Samian, Pyihagwxs 

 who began as a painter ; his seven nude statues now ^^ ^^^°^- 

 at the temple of To-day's Fortune and one of an old 

 man are highly spoken of. He is recorded to have 

 resembled the above mentioned Pythagoras so 

 closely that even their features were indistinguish- 

 able ; but we are told that Sostratus v>'as a pupil 

 of Pythagoras of Reggio and a son of this Pythagoras' 

 sister. 



Lysippus of Sicyon is said by Duris not to have Lysippus. 

 been the pupil of anybody, but to have been origi- 

 nally a copper-smith and to have first got the idea of 

 venturing on sculpture from the reply given by the 

 painter Eupompus when asked which of his prede- 

 cessors he took for his model ; he pointed to a crowd 

 of people and said that it was Nature herself, not an 

 artist, whom one ought to imitate. Lysippus as we 

 have said was a most prolific artist and made more § 37 

 statues than any other sculptor, among them the Man 

 using a Body-scraper '^ which Marcus Agrippa gave 

 to be set up in front of his Warm Baths and of 

 which the emperor Tiberius was remarkably fond. a.d. 14-37. 

 Tiberius, although at the beginning of his principate 

 he kept some control of himself, in this case could 

 not resist the temptation, and had the statue re- 

 moved to his bedchamber, putting another one in 

 its place at the baths ; but the public were so 



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