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Bryaxis made statues of Asclepius and Seleucus,'* other 

 Boedas a Man Praying, Baton an ApoUo and a Hera, {cSw-*. 

 both now in the Temple of Concord at Rome. 

 Cresilas did a Man Fainting from Wounds, the 

 expression of which indicates how httle Hfe remains, 

 ;ind the Olympian Pericles, a figure worthy of its 

 title ^ ; indeed it is a marvellous thing about the art 

 of sculpture that it has added celebrity to men 

 alreadv celebrated. Cephisodorus made the wonder- 

 ful Athene at the harbour of Athens and the 

 almost unrivalled altar at the temple of Zeus the 

 Deliverer at the same harbour, Canachus the naked 

 Apollo, surnamed Philesius, at Didyma, made of 

 bronze compounded at Aegina ^ ; and with it he 

 made a stag so Hghtly poised in its footprints as to 

 allow of a thread being passed underneath its feet, 

 the ' heel ' and the ' toes ' holding to the base \y\th. 

 alternate contacts, the whole hoof being so jointed in 

 either part that it springs back from the impact 

 alternately.^ He also made a Boys Riding on 

 Race-horses. Chaereas did Alexander the Great 

 and his father Phihp, Ctesilaus a Man with a Spear 

 and a Wounded Amazon, Demetrius Lysimache 

 who was a priestess of Athene for 64 years, and also 

 the Athene called the Murmuring Athene ^ — 

 the dragons on her Gorgon's head sound with a 

 tinkhng note when a harp is struck ; he Hkewise did 



" Or, ' compounded on the Aeginetan formula.' Cf. § 10. 



<* Pliny is not clear; the MSS. reading dente (' tooth ' not 

 ' ivory ' ?) is altcred here to ungue by conjecture. Perhaps he 

 simply means that Avhen the figure was rocked to and fro, a 

 thread coukl be slipped under two feet. From coins we know 

 that the small stag was not on the ground but on the god'3 

 hand. 



* The right reading is unknown. 



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