BOOK XXXV. XL. 135-T38 



held the same view. Timomachus of Byzantium Timoma- 

 in the period of Caesar's dictatorship " painted an ^^"bo 

 Ajax and a Medea, placed by Caesar in the temple 

 of Venus Genetrix, having been bought at the price 

 of 80 talents (Marcus Varro rates the Attic talent 

 at 6000 denarii). Equal praise is given to 

 Timomachus's Orestes, his Iphigenia among the 

 Tauri and his Gymnastic-Master Lecythion ; also his 

 Noble Family and his Two Men wearing the Pallium, 

 whom he has represented as about to converse ; one 

 is a standing figure and the other seated. It is in 

 his painting of a Gorgon ^ however that his art seems 

 to have given him most success. 



Pausias's son and pupil Aristolaus was one of the Aristoiam. 

 painters of the very severe style ; to him belong an 

 Epaminondas, a Pericles, a Medea, a Virtue, a 

 Theseus, a figure representing the Athenian People, 

 and a Sacrifice of Oxen. Some persons also admire 

 Nicophanes, who was Hkewise a pupil of Pausias, Mcophanes. 

 for his careful accuracv which only artists can ap- 

 preciate, though apart from that he is hard in his 

 colouring and lavish in his use of ochre. As for 

 Socrates he is justly a universal favourite ; popular socra^es. 

 pictures by him are his group of Asclepius with his 

 daughters Health, Brightness, All-Heal and Remedy, 

 and his Sluggard, bearing the Greek name of Ocnos, 

 Laziness, and represented as twisting a rope of 

 broom which an ass is nibbling.*^ 



Having so far pointed out the chief painters in both 

 branches,<^ we will also mention those of the rank 

 next to the first : Aristoclides who decorated the AnstocUdes 

 Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Antiphilus who is «"-^ ^'^^^- 

 praised for his Boy Blowing a Fire, and for the 

 apartment, beautiful in itself, lit by the reflection 



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