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the moiinted statue of Simon who wrote the first 

 treatise on horsemanship. Daedalus (also famous 

 as a modeller in clay) made Two Boys using a 

 Body-Scraper, and Dinomenes did a Protesilaus and 

 the \\Testler Pythodemus. The statue of Alexander 

 Paris is by Euphranor; it is praised because it 

 conveys all the characteristics of Paris in combina- 

 tion — the judge of the goddesses, the lover of Helen 

 and yet the slayer of Achilles. The Athene, called 

 at Rome the CatuHana, which stands below the 

 Capitol and was dedicated by Quintus Lutatius 73 b.o. 

 Catulus, is Euphranor's, and so is the figure of 

 Success," holding a dish in the right hand and in the 

 left an ear of corn and some poppies, and also in the 

 temple of Concord a Leto as Nursing Mother, with 

 the infants Apollo and Artemis in her arms. He 

 also made four-horse and two-horse chariots, and an 

 exceptionally beautiful Lady with the Keys,^ and 

 two colossal statues, one of Virtue and one of Greece, 

 a V/oman Wondering and vVorshipping, and also an 

 Alexander and a PhiHp in four-horse chariots. 

 Eutychides did a Eurotas,*^ in v/hich it has frequently 

 been said that the work of the artist seems clearer 

 than the water of the real river. The Athene and 

 the King Pyrrhus ^ of Hegias are praised, and his 

 Boys Riding on Race-horses, and his Castor and 

 Pollux that stand before the temple of Jupiter the 

 Thunderer; and so are Hagesias's Heracles in our 

 colony ^' of Parium, and Isidotus's Man Sacrificing 

 an Ox. Lycius who was a pupil of Myron did a 

 Boy Blowing a Dying Fire that is worthy of his 

 instructor, also a group of the Argonauts ; Leochares 

 an Eagle carrying ofF Ganymede in which the bird 

 is aware of what his burden is and for whom he is 



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