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copies of the ftatue Mei rprefented Sparta. Thére is 
likewife a head of Apollo with the name of Allion. Ma- 
fiette attributed to this arti the ee us feal of Michael 
e firfte oe as has been faid before, 
ay added his spe oe to his name. This infcription, 
by dividi ing the name into two sere was firft interpreted 
«¢ Stone given to Apollo ;”? but it has fince been afcertained 
that this cannot be the ele and that it is the name of the 
artift. ‘T'o him is alfo-attributed a dying Othryades. His 
ftyle, fimple, although not excellent, renders it rae pro- 
bable that he flourifhed als the Augnitan age.—Apollo- 
nius (ALLOAAOQNIOY) 5 Diana of the mountains 
(Mortium Cuttos), with atorch 5 in her hand.—Afpafius 
(ACITA TOT) 5 a-head of Minerva. ‘The co panel of 
the engraver’s name at that “3 ‘AL afia, had, at > in- 
duced a belief that this portrait reprefented this ee 
courtefan. ‘This Minerva appear rs to be a copy from the 
buft of the Minerva of Phidias : but the form of the letter C, 
together with the fubftance the artift has employed, namely, 
acommon jafper, is rather againft placing him in one of the 
flourifhing cas of oy oman em There are three 
engravin him the fame red jafper.—Athenion 
(A@HNION) 5 jupiter thundering at two ne 
nyfiac bull, a young Hercules, a ae d ofa 
diadem, and that of an old ma ikewife with a diadem 
and a long beard. ‘The inlay af the bull with of 
the autonomic medals o is may DG ‘cae before 
NH we 
ment, ee the combat of a ‘Wie and eeu: * Mich 
(MI©), perhaps Mithrane, or dann H the head and 
“neck of a horfe. name is, no doubt, that of the artift ; 
for to fay that the figure reprefents the horfe of Mithridates, 
na that this gem belonged to his celebrated Daétyliotheca, 
epee too y boldly. —Pamphilus (ITAM®IAOY) ; 7 
his n ethyft in one of the public collections 
ts Achilles playing on de ee a fub- 
ame is on an 
xcellent feulptor, a difciple of Praxiteles, of the name 
amphilus, is, by fome, fuppofed to be the fame who 
pane | this ftone; but there is no a for a 
opinion.—A xeochus (AZEOXOE EI), has e 
playing on the lyre, near a child holding a es ie a 
cref{cent between the two figures.—Diphilus (DIPHI1.1) ; 
a vafe with two mafks above the handle. The circumftance 
(MYPTON) 5 3 a machus 3 a fa 
a tiger’s fkin: in ae colle@tion of the duke of Marlbor ough: 
gure is eee ona ecm of the adel ahr 
M S. 
ss ae ae is compofed only of the pik fix ae which, 
ordin ng to Millin, fhould be 
a car. 
to 
As to the Horizontal dafh in 6, it is often either omitted by 
the engraver, or too o flightly expreffed to be vifible.-—Carpus 
(KAPTOY): he has engraved a Bacchus and Ariadne, and 
a Hercules and J ole.—Euplus (EYTIAOY) 3 acupid mounted 
on adolphin. ‘I'he Greek word, inftead of being the name 
of the engraver, signifies, perhaps, nothing but “ happy 
voyage. ’—-Futhus (GY@OY) : of this engraver we poflefs 
a Silen ee amidft ag Cupids that play on the lyre and 
ouble flute. M as concluded his lift of the prin- 
cipal aeaiete ? Greece that flourifhed at periods when the 
ak hens a art in their own country, and after their fettle- 
in me, with fome ger neral vations on the 
Ca prota ban of the - 
ing into an error to fuppofe all thofe productions perfect 
works of art ; for though talent was generally diffufed over . 
Greece, it does not follow that every artift of that country 
mutt a arrived at that eed of ere llence which we ad- 
mire i many rema ins of Gre 
is better felt Gai defcribed. Sometimes they 
derable depth to their work ; at other times we 
gures wrought in very flight relief, which latter fryle of en- 
t o the cameo engraving. ere unacquainted wi 
perf{pective, the place of owever, they fupplied in 
fome meafure, by the greater or lefs depth they gave to the 
i 
different parts. e multiply their figures, or 
crowd them into a {mall fpace. They were filful in repre- 
fenting animals; they preferred to draw the naked body, 
and, indeed, moft of the mafter-pieces of art produced in‘ 
bags are figures without drapery ; while thofe executed 
t Rome are generally richly decked with drapery; with 
che exception, however, of thofe of Diofcorides, who fol- 
lowed the taite of his own nation in oa jee for all his 
duced into Rome with that for other monuments of art ; 
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