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a fine picture of Bacchants with Satyrs prowling 

 towards them, and a Scyllf^ that is now in the Temple 

 of Peace in Rome. No other painter was ever a more 

 rapid worker. Indeed it is recorded that he accepted c 355 b.o. 

 a commission from the tyrant of Sicyon Aristratus 

 to paint by a given date a monument that he was 

 erecting to the poet Telestes, and that he only fl- c. 398 b.c. 

 arrived not long before the date ; the \vrathful 

 tyrant threatened to punish him, but in a few days 

 he finished the work Mith a speed and an artistic 

 skill that were both remarkable. Among his pupils 

 were his brother Ariston and his son Aristides," 

 and Philoxenus of Eretria, M'ho painted for King 

 Cassander ^ a picture that holds the highest rank, 

 containing a battle between Alexander and Darius. 

 He also painted a picture with a wanton subject 

 sho^^ing three Sileni at their revels. Imitating the 

 rapidity of his master he introduced some shorthand 

 methods of painting, executed with still more 

 rapidity of technique. 



With these artists is also reckoned Nicophanes, 

 an elegant and finished painter with whom few can be 

 compared for gracefulness, but who for tragic feeling 

 and weight of style is far from Zeuxis and Apelles. 

 Perseus, the pupil to whom Apelles dedicated his § 79. 

 volumes on the art of painting, had belonged to the 

 same period. Aristides '^ of Thebes also had as his 

 pupils his sons Niceros and Ariston,^ the latter the 

 painter of a Satyr Crowned with a Wreath and 

 Holding a Goblet ; and other pupils of Aristides were 

 Antorides and Euphranor ^ ; about the latter we 

 shallspeaklateron. 5128. 



XXXVII. For it is proper to append the artists piraeirM 

 famous with the brush in a minor style of painting. ^"^ ^'^* 



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