BOOK XXXIV. XIX. 90-93 



Matrons and Matrons at Prayer and OfFering a Sacri- 

 fice. Simon made a Dog and an Archer, the famous 

 engraver Stratoiiicus some philosophers and each of 

 these artists made figures of hostesses of inns.« The 

 following have made figures of athletes, armed men, 

 hunters and men offering sacrifice : Baton, Euchir, 

 Glaucides, HeHodorus, Hicanus, lophon, Lyson, 

 Leon, Menodorus. Myagrus, Polycrates, Polyidus, 

 Pythocritus, Protogenes (who was also, as we shall xxxv. 101 

 say later, one of the most famous painters), Patrocles, *'^^* 

 Pollis and Posidonius (the last also a distinguished 

 silver chaser, native of Ephesus), Periclymenus, 

 Philo, Symenus, Timotheus, Theomnestus, 

 Timarchides, Timon, Tisias, Thraso. 



But of all Callimachus is the most remarkable, ^<w. c. 400 

 because of the surname attached to him : he was 

 always unfairly critical of his own work, and was an 

 artist of never-ending assiduity, and consequently 

 he was called the Niggler,^ and is a notable warning 

 of the duty of observing moderation even in taking 

 pains. To him belongs the Laconian Women 

 Dancing, a very finished work but one in which 

 assiduity has destroyed all charm. Callimachus 

 is reported to have also been a painter. Cato in his 

 expedition to Cyprus sold all the statues found there 53-66 b.c. 

 except one of Zeno ; it was not the value of the 

 bronze nor the artistic merit that attracted him, 

 but its being the statue of a philosopher : I mention 

 this by the way, to introduce this distinguished <^ 

 instance also. 



In mentioning statues — there is also one we must 



" The MSS. give ' this empty example,' explained as imply- 

 ing that Cato neglected the example set by his great grand- 

 father, Cato the Censor who disliked the Greeks. 



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