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even in the warmest part of his Hot Baths ; which 

 were removed a short time ago when the Baths were 

 being repaired. 



X. His late lamented Majesty Augustus went Augustm 

 beyond all others, in placing two pictures in the most ^''J^^j^ 

 frequented part of his forum, one with alikeness of War 



and Triumph, and one with the Castors'* and Victory. 

 He also erected in the Temple of his father Caesar * 

 pictures we shall specify in giving the names of artists. § 91. 

 He Hkewise let into a wall in the curia which he was 

 dedicating in the comitium : a Nemea ^ seated on a 29 b.c. 

 lion, holding a palm-branch in her hand, and standing 

 at her side an old man leaning on a stick and with a 

 picture of a two-horse chariot hung up over his head, 

 on which there was an inscription saying that it was 

 an * encaustic ' design — such is the term which he 

 employed — by Nicias.*^ The second picture is remark- 

 able for displaying the close family hkeness between 

 a son in the prime of life and an elderly father, 

 allowing for the difference of age : above them soars 

 an eagle with a snake in its claws ; Philochares has 

 stated this work to be by him showing the im- 

 measurable power exercised by art if one merely 

 considers this picture alone, inasmuch as thanks to 

 Philochares two otherwise quite obscure persons 

 Glaucio and his son Aristippus after all these 

 centuries have passed still stand in the view of the 

 senate of the Roman nation ! The most ungracious 

 emperor Tiberius also placed pictures in the temple a.d. 14-37 

 of Augustus himself which we shall soon mention. § I3i. 

 Thus much for the dignity of this now expiring art. 



XI. We stated what were the various single Painters 

 colours used by the first painters when we were xxxiii 

 discussing while on the subject of metals the pig- ^i^. 



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