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Among these was Piraeicus, to be ranked below few 

 painters in skill ; it is possible that he won distinction 

 by his choice of subjects, inasmuch as although 

 adopting a humble line he attained in that field 

 the height of glory. He painted barbers' shops and 

 cobblers' stalls, asses, viands and the like, conse- 

 quently receiving a Greek name meaning ' painter 

 of sordid subjects'; in these however he gives 

 exquisite pleasure, and indeed they fetched bigger 

 prices than the largest works of many masters. On 

 the other hand ' a picture by Serapio,' says Varro, 

 ' covered the whole of the Maenian Balconies " at 

 the place Beneath the Old Shops,' Serapio was a 

 most successful scene-painter, but he could not 

 paint a human being. On the contrary, Dionysius 

 painted nothing else but people, and consequently 

 has a Greek name meaning ' Painter of Human 

 Beings.' Callicles also made small pictures, and so 

 did Calates of subjects taken from comedy ; both 

 classes ^ were painted by Antiphilus, who executed AntiphUm. 

 the famous picture of Hesione and an Alexander 

 and a Philip ^ with Athene which are now in the 

 school in Octavia's Porticoes, and in Philippus' '^ 

 Portico a Father Liber or Dionysus, a Young 

 Alexander, a Hippolytus alarmed by the BuU 

 rushing upon him, and in Pompey's Portico a Cadmus 

 and Europa. He also painted a figure in an absurd 

 costume known by the joking name of Grylhis, the 

 name consequently applied to every picture of that 

 sort. He was himself born in Egypt and a pupil of 

 Ctesidemus. 



'^ King of Macedon, father of Alexander. 

 ^* Of L. Marcius Philippus ; built in 29 b.c. ; Octavia'8 

 were built after 27 b.c, Pompey's (see below) in 55 b.c. 



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