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but it was first practised by thc Corinthian Aridices 

 and the Sicyonian Telephanes — these were at that 

 stage not using any colour, yet already adding 

 lines here and there to the interior of the outhnes ; 

 hence it became their custom to write on the pictures 

 the names of the persons represented. Ecphantus 

 of Corinth is said to have been the first to daub these 

 drawings with a pigment made of powdered earthen- 

 ware. We shall show below that this was another § 152. 

 person, bearing the same name, not the one recorded 

 by CorneHus Xepos to have followed into Italy 

 Demaratus the father of the Roman king Tarquinius trad. 6I6- 

 Priscus when he fled from Corinth to escape the^'*^^*^- 

 violence of the tyrant Cypsehis. 



VI. For the art of painting had already been Eariy 

 brought to perfection even in Italy. At all events pJj5^,So 

 there survive even to-day in the temples at Ardea 

 paintings that are older than the city of Rome, 

 which to me at all events are incomparably remark- 

 able, surviving for so long a period as though freshly 

 painted, although unprotected by a roof. Similarly 

 at Lanuvium, where there are an Atalanta and a 

 Helena close together, nude figures, painted by the 

 same artist, each of outstanding beauty (the former 

 shown as a virgin), and not damaged even by the 

 collapse of the temple. The Emperor Caligula from a.d. 37. 

 lustful motives attempted to remove them, but the 

 consistency of the plaster would not allow this to be 

 done. There are pictures surviving at Caere that 

 are even older. And whoever carefully judges 

 these works \\\\\ admit that none of the arts reached 

 full perfection more quickly, inasmuch as it is 

 clear that painting did not exist in the Trojan 

 period. 



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