BOOK XXXV. XXXVII. 117-120 



also introduced using pictures of seaside cities to 

 decorate uncovered terraces, giving a niost pleasing 

 effect and at a very small expense. 



But among artists great fame has been confined to 

 painters of pictures only," a fact which shows the 

 wisdom of early times to be the more worthy of 

 respect, for they did not decorate walls, merely for 

 owners of property, or houses, which would remain 

 in one place and which could not be rescued from a 

 fire. Protogenes was content with a cottage in his 

 little garden ; Apelles had no wall-frescoes in his 

 house ; it was not yet the fashion to colour the whole 

 of the walls. With all these artists their art was on 

 the alert for the benefit of cities, and a painter was the 

 common property of the world. 



A httle before the period of iiis late lamented AreiHus 

 Majesty Augustus, ArelHus also was in high esteem 

 at Rome, had he not prostituted his art by a notorious 

 outrage, by ahvays paying court to any woman he 

 happened to fall in love with, and consequently 

 painting goddesses, but in the Ukeness of his 

 mistresses ; and so his pictures inchided a number of 

 portraits of harlots. Another recent painter was Famuim 

 Famulus, a dignified and severe but also very florid 

 artist ; to him belonged a Minerva who faced the 

 spectator at whatever angle she was looked at. 

 Famulus used to spend only a few hours a day in 

 painting, and also took his work very seriously, 

 as he always wore a toga, even when in the midst 

 of his easels. The Golden House ^ was the prison 

 that contained his productions, and this is why 

 other examples of his work are not extant to 

 any considerable extent. After him in esteem were 

 CorneHus Pinus and Attius Priscus, who painted 



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