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counted. He also painted a Procession of the 

 Magabyzus, the priest of Artemis of Ephesus, a 

 Clitus with Horse hastening into battle ; and an 

 armour-bearer handing someone a helmet at his 

 command. How many times he painted Alexander 

 and Philip it would be superfluous to recount. His 

 Habron at Samos is much admired, as is his Menander, 

 King of Caria, at Pthodes, Hkewise his Antaeus, and 

 at Alexandria his Gorgosthenes the Tragic Actor, 

 and at Rome his Castor and Pollux with Victory 

 and Alexander the Great, and also his figure of 

 War° with the Hands Tied behind, with Alexander 

 riding in Triumph in his Chariot. Both of these 

 pictures his late lamented Majesty Augustus with 

 restrained good taste ^ had dedicated in the most 

 frequented parts of his forum ; the emperor Claudius 

 however thought it more advisable to cut out the 

 face of Alexander from both works and substitute 

 portraits of Augustus. The Heracles wdth Face 

 Averted in the temple of Diana is also beheved to be 

 by his hand — so drawn that the picture more truly 

 displays Heracles' face than merely suggests it to 

 the imagination — a very difficult achievement. He 

 also painted a Nude Hero, a picture with which he 

 challenged Nature herself. There is, or was, a 

 picture of a Horse by him, painted in a competition, 

 by which he carried his appeal for judgement from 

 mankind to the dumb quadrupeds ; for perceiving 

 that his rivals were getting the better of him by 

 intrio-ue, he had some horses brouoht and showed 

 them their pictures one by one ; and the horses only 

 began to neigh when they saw the horse painted by 

 Apelles ; and this always happened subsequently, 

 showing it to be a sound test of artistic skill. He 



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