BOOK XXXV. xL. 143-146 



Celebrating the Quinquatrus,« and also a Nemesis of 

 great merit ; Theorus a Man Anointing Himself, 

 and also Orestes killing his Mother and Aegisthus, 

 and the Trojan War in a series of pictures novv in 

 Philippus' Porticoes at Rome and a Cassandra, in 

 the Shrine of Concord, a Leontion Epicurus's mis- 

 tress in Contemplation, a King Demetrius ; Theon 

 a Madness of Orestes, a Thamyras the Harper ; 

 Tauriscus a Man throwing a Quoit, a Clytaemnestra, 

 a Young Pan, a Polynices Claiming the Sovereignty,^ 

 and a Capaneus. 



Among these artists the following remarkable 

 case is not to be left out ; the man who ground the 

 colours for the painter Nealces, Erigonus, attained 

 such proficiency on his own account that he actually 

 left behind him a famous pupil, Pasias, the brother 

 of the painter Aeginetas. It is also a very unusual 

 and memorable fact that the last works of artists 

 and their unfinished pictures such as the Iris of 

 Aristides,^^ the Tyndarus' Children ^ of Nicomachus, 

 the Medea of Timomachus and the Aphrodite of 

 Apelles which we have mentioned, are more admired § 92. 

 than those which they finished, because in them are 

 seen the preliminary drawings left visible and the 

 artists' actual thoughts, and in the midst of approvaVs 

 beguilement we feel regret that the artist's hand 

 while engaged in the work was removed by death. 



There are still some artists who are not undistin- 

 guished but vvho only need be mentioned in passing — 

 Aristocydes, Anaxander, Aristobulus of Syria, 

 Arcesilas son of Tisicrates, Coroebus the pupil of 



^ Of Thebes, against his brother Eteocles. 

 " See§§ 75, 98, 108, 111. 



"* These were Castor, Polydeuces (Pollux), Helen, and 

 Clytaemnestra. 



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