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romping with a fisherman with whom gossip said she 

 was in love, and put it on exhibition at Ephesus 

 Harbour, himself makiiig a hurried escape on ship- 

 board. The Queen would not allow the picture to be 

 removed, the likeness of the two figures being 

 admirably expressed. Cratinus painted the Comic 

 Actors in the Processional Building « at Athens, 

 Eutychides a Chariot and Pair driven by Victory. 

 Eudorus is famous for a- scene-painting — he also 

 made bronze statues — and Hippys for his Posidon 

 and his Victory. I^abron painted a Friendship and 

 a Harmony and figures of gods, Leontiscus an Aratus 

 with the Trophies of \ ictory, and a Harpist Girl, 

 Leon a Sappho, Nearchus Aphrodite among the 

 Graces and the Cupids, and a Heracles in Sorrow 

 Repenting his Madness, Nealces an Aphrodite. 

 This Nealces was a talented and clever artist, inas- 

 much as when he painted a picture of a naval battle 

 between the Persians and the Egyptians, which he 

 desired to be understood as taking place on the river 

 Nile, the water of which resembles * the sea, he 

 suggested by inference what could not be shown 

 by art : he painted an ass standing on the shore 

 drinking, and a crocodile lying in wait for it.'' Oenias 

 has done a Family Group, PhiUscus a Painter's 

 Studio with a boy blowing the fire, Phalerion a 

 Scylla, Simonides an Agatharchus and a Mnemosyne, 

 Simus a Young Man Reposing, a Fuller's Shop 



'^ But it is certain that the picture referred to a battle in 

 the Persian Artaxerxes III Ochus' conquest of Egypt in 350 

 B.c. The Egyptians called him ' Ass ' (with allusion to the 

 ass-shaped Seth Typhon who represented the wicked foe); 

 and the Ukeness of ovos (ass) to ^0^0? (Ochus) became a joke 

 amongst Greeks who fought on both sides. 



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