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ofF very second best in comparison with the original 

 artist, having entered into competition in what was 

 not really his line, Pausias also first introduced the 

 painting of panelled ceilings, and it was not 

 customary before him to decorate arched roofs in 

 this way. He used to paint miniatures, and 

 especiallv children. His rivals explained this prac- 

 tice as being due to the slow pace of his work in 

 paintino' ; and consequently to give his work also the 

 reputation of speed he finished a picture in a single 

 day, a picture of a boy which was called in Greek 

 Hemeresios, meaning One-day Boy. In his youth 

 he fell in love with a fellow-townswoman named 

 Glycera, who invented chaplets of flowers ; and by 

 imitating her in rivalry he advanced the art of 

 encaustic painting so as to reproduce an extremely 

 numerous variety of flowers. Finally he painted a 

 portrait of the woman herself, seated and wearing a 

 wreath, which is one of the very finest of pictures ; 

 it is called in Greek Stephanoplocos, Girl making 

 Wreaths, or by others StephanopSlis, Girl selling 

 Wreaths, because Glycera had supported her poverty 

 by that trade. A copy (in Greek apographoii) of 

 this picture was bought by Lucius Lucullus at 

 Athens for two talents ; <it had been made by) 8S-7 b.c. 

 Dionysius at Athens. But Pausias also did large 

 pictures, for instance the Sacrifice of Oxen which 

 formerly was to be seen in Pompey's Portico. 

 He first invented a method of painting which has 

 afterwards been copied by many people but equalled 

 by no one ; the chief point was that although he 

 wanted to show the long body of an ox he painted 

 the animal facing the spectator and not standing 

 sideways, and its great size is fully conveyed." 



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