PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



illiid vero sicciim purumque, gracili venarum discursu 

 fissile. vis eadem quae supra, sed acrior. itaque 

 et causticis additur et psilotris. tollit et pterygia 

 digitorum carnesque narium et condylomata et 

 quidquid excrescit. torretur, ut valdius ^ prosit, in 

 nova testa, donec mutet colorem. 



' valdius B : validius rell. 



NOTE ON XXXIV. 17 AND 70. 



The gronp of two figures (representing Harmodius and 



Aristogeiton) made by Antenor in bronze, set up at Athens in 

 510-9 B.C., was oarried off by Xerxes in 480 ; and a new 

 bronze pair was made by Critius and Nesiotes and set up at 

 Athens in 477. Antenor's group was found by Alexander in 

 Persia, and on his orders, it seems, one of his successors 

 c. 293-2 restored it to Athens ; part of the original base of 

 Critius' and Nesiotes' group, it seems, has now been found; 

 the marble group now at Naples is thought to be a Roman 

 copy of the same group and made in the 2nd cent. a.d. The 

 bearded head of Aristogeiton can be restored from a head in 

 the Vatican. Copies of this group can be seen on four Attic 

 vases of the first half of the fifth century b.c. (Beazley, 

 Journ. of Hellen. Stnd. LXVIII (1948), 28), and one of about 

 400 B.c. (W. Hahland, Vasen um Meidias p. 6 and pl. 6a). 



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