BOOK XXXIV. XIX. 79-82 



carrying it, and is careful iiot to let his claws hurt 

 the boy even through his clothes, and Autolyciis 

 Winner of the All-roiind Bout, being also the athlete 

 in whose honour Xenophon wrote his Baiiquet^^ and 

 the famous Zeus the Thunderer now on the Capitol, 

 of quite unrivalled merit, also an Apollo crowned 

 with a Diadem ; also Lyciscus, the Slave-dealer, 

 and a Boy, with the crafty cringing look of a house- 

 hold slave. Lycius also did a Boy Burning Perfumes. 

 There is a Bull-calf by Menaechmus, on which a man 

 is pressing his knee as he bends its neck back ; 

 Menaechmus has written a treatise about his own 

 Mork. The reputation of Naucydes rests on his 

 Hermes and Man throwing a Disc and Man Sacri- 

 ficing a Ram, that of Naucerus on his Wrestler 

 Winded, that of Niceratus on his Asclepius and his 

 Goddess of Health, which are in the Temple of 

 Concord at Rome. Pyromachus has an Alcibiades 

 Driving a Chariot and Four ; Polycles made a famous 

 Hermaphrodite, Pyrrhus, a Goddess of Health and 

 an Athene, Phanis, who was a pupil of Lysippus, a 

 Woman Sacrificing. Styppax of Cyprus is known 

 for a single statue, his Man Cooking Tripe, which 

 represented a domestic slave of the Olympian ^ 

 Pericles roasting inwards and puffing out his cheeks 

 as he kindles the fire with his breath ; Silanion cast 

 a metal figure of ApoUodorus, who was himself a 

 modeller, and indeed one of quite unrivalled devotion 

 to the art and a severe critic of his own work, who 

 often broke his statues in pieces after he had hnished 

 them, his intense passion for his art making him 

 unable to be satisfied, and consequently he was 

 given the surname of the Madman — this quahty he 

 brought out in his statue, the Madman, which 



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