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The foure and thirtieth Rooke 
The powder and duft which the file made in the workmanfhip.and polithing of this coloffe,car- G : 
vilius himfelfe caft againe,and thereof made his own image and pourtraiture, and the fame ftan- 
deth (as you may fee) at the foor of the other, Within the faid Capitoll, there bee two brafen’ 
heads worthie of admiration, which P. Lentulws when he was Confull thought good to dedicat 
to that place. The one was made by Chares the forefaid founder; the other wrought by Decius : 
butthis of Decézs his making compared with the other, commeth fo farre fhort, that one would 
not take itto be the doing of an artificer that was his crafts-tnafter, but rather of fome bungler, 
prentice, or learner. Burt ro fpeake indeed of a great image, and that which furpaffeth in bignefle 
all the reft of that kind, looke but upon the huge and prodigious colofle of CVercurie, which 
Z:nodor us in our age and within our remembrance, made in Fraunce at Auvergne: ten yeeres 
he was about it, and the workmanfhip came to foure hundred thoufand fefterces. Now when he 
had made fufficient proofe of his Art there,Nero the Emperour fent for him to come to Rome, 
where hee caftindeed and finifhed a coloffea hundred and ten foot Jong, to the fimilitude and 
Jikeneffe of the faid Emperor, according as it was firft appointed and as he began it: but the faid 
prince being dead and his head laid, dedicated it wasto the honour andworfhip of the Sun, in — 
deteftation ofthat moft wicked monfter,whofe ungratious acts the citie condemned and abhor- 
red. Certes, 1 my felfe have been in that workehoufe of Zenodorws, where I beheld and confide- 
red not onely that great mafter- patterne in cley ofthe faid coloffe, but alfo another confifting of 
verie {mall peeces,as braunches,which ferved as it were for moulds, and the firft induction to the 
worke, asthe affay and proofethereof. Surely the workemanthip of this one ftatue or colofle, 
fhewed plainly, that the true {cience and skill of founderie or cafting braffe into forms, was clean 
decaied and gone; confidering that Nero was readie and willing to give filver and gold enough 
for the doing thereof artificially and with expedition. Zewedorus al{o himfelfe was not thought 
inferiour to any workinan in old time, either for counterfeiting a fimilitude, or graving the fame: 
for during the time that hee made the ftatue beforefaidin Auvergne,hee counterfeited two drin- 
king cups graven and chafed by the hand of Calamis,but belonging to Vzbius Avitus (the prefi- 
dencand governour at the fame time, of thatprovince) which he had received of Cafstes Sylla~ 
nus his uncle by the mothers fide,tutor and fchoclemafter fometime to Cafai Ger manicusmhich 
prince notwith{tanding that he loved them well, yet hee beftowed them freely upon his faid ins . 
ftructer Cafsizs, whome he loved better: and Zenodorus did it fo well, that hardly there could be 
difcerned any difference in the workemanfhip, But to conclude, the more confummat and ac- 
complifhed that Zewodorws was for his skill and cunning, the more evidently it appeareth, that 
the scue Art of founderie was in his time cleanc loft, and out of knowledge and practife. : 
Cuap. Ville 
eS Of 366 excellent peeces of worke in Braff, and as many cunning 
artificers in that kind, : 
He images and wrought peeces of Brafle,commonly called Corinthian works, many men - 
takefurch pleafure and delightin, that they loveto carrie the fame with them whitherfoever 
they goe; as Horrenfius the famous orator, who would never be without the counterfeit of 
Sphinx, which hee had from Verves hisclient,at what time as hee was in trouble and called into 
gueftion, for his extortions and opprcffions in Sicilie : in which triall of Yerres, wherein Cicero 
was his adverfarie and accuter, upon occafion that Hortenfizs who pleaded at the barre againft 
him in the behalfe of Verres, among other crofle words that pafled betweene, happened to fay, 
That he underftood no parables and riddles,and therefore willed him to fpeake more plainely; 
Cicero made an{wer readily againe, That by good teafon he fhould be well acquainted with rid- 
dles,{ecing he had a Sphinx at home in his houfe, Likewife, Nevo the Emperour hada great fan- 
cie to a peece or counterfeit of an Amazon, (wereof] meaneto write more hereafter) which by 
his good will he would never bee without. And C.Ceff:us, fomewhat before Nero, a man that in 
his time had been Confull,was fo addi€ted to a little image that he had, that it went with him in- 
‘tothe campe, yea and he would have it about him in the verie confli& and battaile with his ene- 
mies, Moreover, K. 4/exander the Great had four ftatues or images (by report) which ordinarily _ 
were woont and none but they,to fupport his tent when he lay zbroad and kept the field: wherof, 
twain ftand now before the temple of .izars called the Revenger,& othet two before the Palatium. 
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