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contracted with Lucullus to make a statue of Happi- 

 ness for 1,000,000 sesterces, which was prevented by 

 the death of both parties " ; and that when a Knight 

 of Rome Octavius desired him to make a wine-bowl 

 he made him a model in plaster for the price of a 

 talent. He also praises Pasiteles, who said that PasUeies. 

 modelling was the mother of chasing and of bronze 

 statuary and sculpture, and who, although he was 

 eminent in all these arts, never made anything 

 before he had made a clay model. He also states 

 that this art had already been brought to perfection 

 by Italy and especially by Etruria ; that Vulca was 

 summoned from Veii to receive the contract from 

 Tarquinius Priscus for a statue of Jupiter to be trad. 6I6- 

 consecrated in the Capitol, and that this Jupiter ^'^"^-^- 

 was made of clay and consequently was regularly 

 painted with cinnabar ; and that the four-horse viii, I6I, 

 chariots about which we spoke above on the pedi- ^^"^^^' ^^- 

 ment of the temple were modelled in clay ; and that 

 the figure of Hercules, which even to-day retains in 

 the city the name ^ of the material it is made of, was 

 the work of the same artist. For these were the 

 most splendid images of gods at that time ; and we 

 are not ashamed of those ancestors of ours for 

 worshipping them in that material. For they used 

 not formerly to work up silver and gold even for 

 gods. XL\ I. Statues of this kind are still to be 

 found at various places. In fact even at Rome and 

 in the Municipal Towns there are many pediments 

 of temples, remarkable for their carving and artistic 

 merit and intrinsic durabihty, more deserving of 

 respect than gold, and certainly less baneful. At 

 the present day indeed, even in the midst of our 

 present rich resources the preliminary libation is 



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