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of Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. A97 
As touching images, ftatues,and counterfeits of a fmaller fize,there are an infinit number of 
artificers who are ennobied & renowned by them:yetto begin with theimage of Jvpz.ev made 
at Olympia, Pézdias the Athenian (above all other) was in great name therefore,and wroughtit 
was of yvotie and gold togither: howbeit,many other peeces of braflé there were of his making, 
which greatly commended the workeman. Hee flourithed in the 83 Olympias, and about the 
yeere (after our computation at Rome) 300. And atthe famecime,there lived thofe concurrents 
of his who endeavoured to match him, to wit, Alcamenes,Critias, Neflocles, and Hegias. After 
thefe, and namely in th 87 Olympias, there fucceeded and had theirtume, 4ge/ades Callan ,Poty- 
cletus, Phragmon, Gorgias, Lacon, Myren, Pythagoras, Scopas, and Perelivs : of which, Polycletus 
brought up divers brave and worthic apprentices,and by name, 47/0, Afvpodoris, Alextss Arte 
ftides,Phrynen ,Pynon, Athenodorus,Dameas of Clicore,8 Myroz the Lycian.1n the 95 Olympias, 
there flourithed Nuwcides, Dinomedes Canochus and Patrocles.In the 102 Olympias, there came 
in place, Polycles,Ceph:fvodor us,“ cochares and Hypatodorus.\n the 104 lived Ly/ippus at what ume 
alioK. Alexander the Great flourithed: likewife Zy/i/fratws,and his brother Sibenis, Euphroui- 
aes,S oftratus,Ion,and Silanion : of which Sélanion, this is woonderfull, that having no maftet at 
all to teach and inftru& him in theart, yet he became himfelfe fo excellent, that hee brought up 
under him, Zex-x1s and /ades, In the 120 Olympias, Eutychides, Euthycrates, Labippus,Cephifvoao- 
rus, Tymarchusand Pyrom.chws, were famous artificersfor the time, Then lay the Art afleep and 
as it were dead for awhile,untill fuch timeas about the 155 Olympias, it feemed torevive and a* 
wakenagaine: and then there arole dathews,Callistratus, Polycles, Athenaus Callixentss, Pytho- 
cles, Pythias and Timocles, indifferent good workmen, but nothing comparable to the other be- 
forenamed. Thus having raunged the moft famous aruificers diftin@ly, according to their feve- 
rall ages, 1 willrun overthem againe ; as many1 meane as excell the ref{t: and yet bowfoever I 
make baft,I will not overpaffe the multitude of others,but interlard(as it were) and difperfe them 
among ,as occafion {hall be offered. 
In the firft place, this isto be underftood, that the principall and fingular ofall thefe founders 
camein queltion (nortwith{tanding they livedin fundrie ages) which of them fhouldbe eftee- 
medchiefe, by reafon of divers Amazons wrought by their hands:for when thefe images fhould 
be dedicated in the temiple of Diana in Ephefus,itwas thought good to make choife of one which 
fhould be deemed and approoved beft, by the judgement of thofe workmen who then lived and 
were prefent: {for plaia it was,that the image which they all judged to be next and fecond to their 
owne, the fame was fimply belt,and foro be reputed, This principall Amazon hapnedto be of 
Poiyc:erws his making sin afeconddegree,wasthe Amazon made by Phid-as : that of Crefilas was 
counted the third; of Cydon the fourth : and ina fifth place was reckoned the workemanfhip of 
Phragmon. As for I bidias, befides the inppiter Olymp:xs of hismaking (wherein no man fecketh 
to. come neare unto him) hemade likewile Minerva of yvorie at Athens, which ftandeth there in 
the temple Parthenon.But over and above the forefaid Amazon,there was of his workmanfhip; 
Minerva in brafie, fo faire and beautifull, shat of her beantie {hee tooke the furname [of greaas- 
v07@@~. | Ox his doing was the image called* Cliduchos,and another Maerva, which Aids + ,,., Noge 
Paulys dedicatedat Rome inthetemple of Fortuna dujufce dier,z, Of this daies Fortune. Alfo, i.ciaviecr, the 
two other ftatues or images portraied in clokes or mantels, were his handiworke, which Catulis 'ey-beater 
fer up in the fame tenaple : likewife another after the manner of acoloflus or gyant all naked. In 
fum,he was deemed and that juftly,to have been the firft that devifed and taught the skill of chae 
fing and emboifing.As for Polycletws the Sicyonian who learned his cunning under 4gelades,he 
itwas chat made in brafle, Dicdumenws,an effeminat yong man looking wantonly, with a diadem 
o¢ wreath abouthishead ; a peece of worke of great accountand much {poken of, for thatit coft 
100 talents: anid of his making was Daryphorw,a young boy with a manly countenance,bearing 
a fpeare in his hand. Moreover,he made that which workmen doe call Canon, that istofay,one — 
ablolute pcece of worke, from whence artificers doe fetch their draughts, fymetries,and propor- 
tions,as froma pertect pattern or cule which guideth and directeth them in their worke :foas we 
may wellandtrucly judge, that Po/yelerws alone reduced the skill of founderie and imagerie in- ; 
10 an areand mesiod, as may appeare both by that Canon, and by other workes which paffed throug" 
his hands, OF his workemanthip was the brafen image, reprefenting one {craping and rub- 
bing himielfe in the bath or hotehoufe:as alfo another all naked, and *challenging tothe... Jon 
ice +m, twoboyes both naked playing at dice, which thereuponbe called Aftragalizontes. +7, tome read, 
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