PLiNY: NATURAL HISTORY 



caeiim, ignotum alias, quoniam ^ . . . Thessaliae^ 

 habitaverit et ibi opera eius latuerint; alioqui 

 siifiragiis ipsorum aequatur PolycHto, Myroni, Pytha- 

 gorae. laudant cius Larisam et Spintharum penta- 

 thlum et Apollinem. ahi non hanc ignobilitatis 

 fuisse causam, sed quod se regum Xerxis atque 

 Darei officinis dediderit, existimant. 



()9 Praxiteles quoque, qui ^ marmore fehcior, ideo et 

 clarior fuit, fecit tamen et ex aere pulcherrima opera : 

 Proserpinae raptum, item catagusam et Liberum 

 patrem, Ebrietatem nobilemque una Satyrum, 

 quem Graeci periboeton cognominant, et signa, quae 

 ante Felicitatis aedem fuere, Veneremque, quae ipsa 

 aedis incendio cremata est Claudii principatu, 

 marmoreae illi suae per terras inclutae parem, 



70 item stephanusam,^ psehumenen,^ Oporan,® Harmo- 

 dium et Aristogitonem tyrannicidas, quos a Xerxe 

 Persarum rege captos victa Perside Atheniensibus 

 remisit Magnus Alexander. fecit et puberem 

 ApolUnem subrepenti lacertae comminus sagitta 



1 lac. C. F. W. MuUer. 



2 thessaliae B : in thessalia rell. 

 ^ qui add. Mayhoff. 



* Fortasse <se> stephanusam vel stephanusam <se>. 



^ pseliumenen Urlichs, 0. Jahn : pselhimenen cd. Leid. 

 Voss. : varia rell. 



* Oporan al. Flor. Ricc. : varia rell. (oporum cd. Par. 

 6801): oenophorum edd. vett.: canephoram Urlichs {imnio 

 canephorum). 



" KaTayovGa, from KaTdyoj ' draw down,' ' spin.' 



* The wreath would be one bestowed on an athlete by the 



city (personified) when he won his victory; pseliumene is 



from 0f AtcD, and 0eAtov means an armlet. 



'^ Not the actual tyrant Hippias but his brother and assistant 



Hipparchus, at Athens, 514-13 b.c. 



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