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Antigonus and Xenocrates who have written on the 

 art of painting, and they do not merely admit it but 

 actually advertise it. And there are many other pen- 

 sketches " still extant among his panels and parch- 

 ments, from which it is said that artists derive profit. 

 Xevertheless he seems to fall below his own level in 

 gi\ ing expression to the surface of the body inside 

 the outHne. His picture of the People of Athens 

 also shows ingenuity in treating the subject, since 

 he displayed them as fickle,* choleric, unjust and 

 variable, but also placable and merciful and compas- 

 sionate. boastful <and ....), lofty and humble, 

 fierce and timid — and all these at the same time. 

 He also painted a Theseus which was once <^ in the 

 Capitol at Rome, and a Naval Commander in a 

 Cuirass, and in a single picture now at Rhodes figures 

 of Meleager, Heracles and Perseus. This last 

 picture has been three times struck by lightning at 

 Rhodes without being effaced, a circumstance which 

 in itself enhances the wonder felt for it. He also 

 painted a High Priest of Cybele, a picture for which 

 the Emperor Tiberius conceived an affection and kept a.d. 14-37. 

 it shut up in his bedchamber, the price at which 

 it was valued according to Deculo being 6,000,000 

 sesterces. He also painted a Thracian Nurse with 

 an Infant in her Arms, a PhiUscus, and a Father 

 Liber or Dionysus attended by Virtue, and Two 

 Children in which the carefree simplicity of childhood 

 is clearly displayed, and also a Priest attended by 

 Boy with Incense-box and Chaplet. There are also 

 two very famous pictures by him, a Runner in the 

 Race in Full Armour who aotually seems to sweat 

 with his efforts, and the other a Runner in FuU 

 Armour Taking ofF his Arms, so lifehke that he can 



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