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and Cenchramis and Callicles and Cepis ; Chalco- 

 sthenes also did actors in comedy and athletes ; 

 Daippus a Man using a Scraper ; Daiphron, 

 Damocritus and Daemon statues of philosophers. 

 Epigonus, who copied others in almost all the subjects 

 already mentioned, took the lead with his Trumpet- 

 player and his Weeping Infant pitifully caressing 

 its Murdered Mother. Praise is given to Eubulus's 

 Woman in Admiration and to EubuHdes's Person 

 Counting on the Fingers. Micon is noticed for his 

 athletes and Menogenes for his chariots and four. 

 Niceratus, who likewise attempted all the subjects 

 employed by any other sculptor, did a statue of 

 Alcibiades and one of his mother Demarate,« repre- 

 sented as performing a sacrifice by torch-light. 

 Tisicrates did a pair-horse chariot in which Piston 

 afterwards placed a woman ; the latter also made 

 an Ares and a Hermes now in the Temple of Concord 

 at Rome. No one should praise Perillus, who was o-. 570B.0. 

 more cruel than the tyrant Phalaris, for whom he 

 made a bull, guaranteeing that if a man were shut 

 up inside it and a fire lit underneath the man would 

 do the bellowing ; and he was himself the first to 

 experience this torture — a cruelty more just than 

 the one he proposed. Such were the depths to 

 which the sculptor had diverted this most humane 

 of arts from images of gods and men ! All the 

 founders of the art had only toiled so that it should 

 be employed for making implements of torture ! 

 Consequently this sculptor's works are preserved 

 for one purpose only, so that whoever sees them 

 may hate the hands that made them. Sthennis did 

 a Demeter, a Zeus and an Athene that are in the 

 Temple of Concord at Rome, and also Weeping 



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