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being, what the Greeks term ethe, and also the 

 cmotions ; he was a little too hard in his colours. 

 His works inckide . . . « on the capture of a town, 

 showing an infant creeping to the breast of its mother 

 who is dying of a wound ; it is felt that the mother is 

 aware of the child and is afraid that as her milk is 

 exhausted by death it may suck blood ; this picture 

 had been removed by Alexander the Great * to his 

 native place, Pella. The same artist painted a 

 Battle ^ with the Persians, a panel that contains a 

 hundred human figures, which he parted with to 

 Mnason the Tyrant of Elatea on the terms of ten 

 minae per man. He also painted a Four-horse 

 Chariots Racing, a SuppHant, who almost appeared 

 to speak, Huntsmen with Quarry, Leontion 

 Epicurus's mistress, and Woman ^ At Rest through 

 Love of her Brother; and likewise the Dionysus 

 and the Ariadne once on view in the Temple of 

 Ceres at Rome, and the Tragic Actor and Boy in the 

 Temple of Apollo, a picture of which the beauty has 

 perished owing to the lack of skill of a painter com- 

 missioned by Marcus Junius as praetor to clean it in 

 readiness for the festival of the Games of Apollo. 

 There has also been on view in the Temple of Faith 

 in the Capitol his picture of an Old Man with a Lyre 

 giving lessons to a Boy. He also painted a Sick Man 

 which has received unlimited praise ; and he was so 

 able an artist that King Attalus is said to have 

 bought a single picture of his for a hundred talents. 



Protogenes also flourished at the same time, as has Protogenes. 

 ibeen said. He was born at Caunus, in a community § 8I. 

 that was under the dominion of Rhodes. At the 

 outset he was extremely poor, and extremely devoted 

 to his art and consequently not very productive. 



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