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crates, also, for devising the Model of Alexandria in Egypt, 

 when Alexander founded it. To conclude, this great Com- 

 mander (Imperator) forbade, by Edict, that any Man should 

 paint him but Apelles: that any one should carve his Statue 

 besides Pyrgoteles : and that any one except Lysippus 

 should cast his Image in Brass. In which Arts many have 

 excelled. 



CHAPTER XXXVIII. 



Surprising Works of Artificers. 1 



KING Attains offered by Competition, for one Picture by 

 Aristides the Theban Painter, a hundred Talents. Ccesar 

 the Dictator bought for eight Talents two Pictures, the 

 Medea and Ajax of Timomachus, which he meant to conse- 

 crate in the Temple of Venus Genetrix. King Candaulas 

 bought of Butarchus a Picture of the Destruction of the 

 Magnetes, of no great Size, and weighed it in an equal Scale 

 with Gold. King Demetrius, surnarned Expugnator, forbore 

 to set Rhodes on Fire, because he would not burn a Picture by 

 Protogenes t which was placed in that part of the Wall which 

 he attacked. Praxiteles was ennobled on account of a marble 

 Statue, the Gnidian Venus, remarkable particularly for the 

 mad Love of a certain young Man ; which Statue was so 

 esteemed by King Nicomedes, that he endeavoured to obtain 

 it in full Payment of a large Debt they owed him. The 

 Jupiter Olympius still aifordeth daily Testimony to Phydias. 

 {Jupiter} Capitolinus, and Diana of Ephesus yield Testimony 

 to Mentor : and the Instruments of this Art were consecrated 

 by them in their Temples. 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 



Of Bondsmen. 2 

 I HAVE never obtained the Knowledge to this Day of a 



1 The subject of statues and paintings is more fully treated of in the 

 34th and 35th books. Wern. Club. 



a The money which Marc Antony paid for a couple of boys is given 

 in the 12th chapter of this book. Wern. Club. 



