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represented in bronze not a hunian being but anger 

 personified. Silanion also made a famous Achilles, 

 and also a Superintendent Exercising Athletes ; 

 Strongylion made an Amazon, which from the 

 remarkable beauty of the legs is called the Eucnemon, 

 and which consequently the emperor Nero caused to 

 be carried in his retinue on his journeys. The same 

 sculptor made the figure rendered famous by Brutus 

 under the name of Brutus's Boy because it 

 represented a favourite of the hero of the battles at 42 

 Philippi. Theodorus, who constructed the Labyrinth " 

 at Samos, cast a statue of himself in bronze. Besides 

 its remarkable celebrity as a likeness, it is famous 

 for its very minute workmanship ; the right hand 

 holds a file, and three fingers of the left hand origin- 

 ally held a little model of a chariot and four, but this 

 has been taken away to Palestrina as a marvel of 

 smallness : if the team were reproduced in a picture 

 with the chariot and the charioteer, the model of a 

 fly, which was made by the artist at the same time, 

 would cover it with its wings. Xenocrates, who was 

 a pupil of Tisicrates, or by other accounts of 

 Euthycrates, surpassed both of the last mentioned 

 in the number of his statues ; and he also wrote 

 books about his art. 



Several artists have represented the battles of 

 Attalus ^ and Eumenes against the Gauls, Isigonus, 

 Pyromachus, Stratonicus and Antigonus, who wrote 

 books about his art. Boethus did a Child «^ Strangling 

 a Goose by hugging it, although he is better in silver. 

 And among the Hst of works I have referred to all 

 the most celebrated have now been dedicated by the 



^ Attalus I of Pergamum, who dealt with Gallic invaders of 

 Asia Minor between 240 and 232 b.c. " Copies exist. 



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