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was the workman.who caftin braffethe full proportion and fimilitude of Prote(ilais,and of Py- G 
thodemus thefamouswreftler. Alexander, otherwife called Parts, was of Euphranor hismaking : 
The excellent art and workmanfhip whereof was feene in this,that itreprefented unto the eyeall — 
at once,a judge between the goddefles, the lover of Helewa,and yet the mordererof Achilles, The 
image of that Mé/nerva at Rome,which ts called Catuliava,came ovt of thismans fhop: and it is 
the fame which was dedicated and fet up beneathr the Capitoll by Qaimtms LuGatiwveGatulas, 
whereupon ittooke that name. Moreover, the image that fignifieth good lucke or happie fac. 
cefle,carying in theright hand a boule or drinking cup, in the leftan eare of corne and aPoppie 
head,was his handie worke, Like as the princefle or ladie Zatena, newly delivered of Apollo and 
D1cas,holding thefe het two babes in her arms:& this is that Latowa which you fee in the church 
of Concordia in Rome. He made befides many chariots, drawne as well with foure as two horfes:as 
alfo.akey-bearer or Cliduchus, of incomparable beautie. Semblably, two. other ftatues, refem- 
bling Vertue and Greece,both which were of an extraordinarie ftature and bigneffe, eyant-like, 
in manner of Colofles.He made befides a woman miniftring,and yet worfhipping withall. Jen, 
King Alexander the Great,and king Philip his father, riding both in chariots drawne with foure 
horles, Eutychides a renowned imageur, reprefented the river Eurotas in brafle: and many men 
that {aw this worke, were wont to fay, That the water ran not fo cleare in that river,as artandcune. 
ning did appearein this workemanfhip.. Hegéas the imageur made Minerva and king Pyrrhw, 
which be much praifed for the art of the maker : likewile boies practifing to ride on horleback : 
the images alfo of Caffor and Pollux, which ftand before the temple of thundering Jupiter in 
Rome.In the colonie or citie Parium,there is an excellent flatue of Hercales,the handie worke of | 
Tfido; ws. Buthyreus the Lycian was taught his cunning by iron, who among many other pee- 
ces,befeeming the apprentile of fuch a maifter, devifed in braflé to reprefent a boy blowing ata 
fire halfe out: and hee it was that caft in che fame metrall the famous Argonantes,in that voyage 
to Colchos, | ) 
Leocras made the Lgle that ravithedG.imy wedes and flew away with him;butfo artificially ,as 
it (he knowing what a fine and daintie boy fhe had in charge,andto whom fhee caried him, claf- 
ped the childio tenderly,that the forbarewith her tallons to pierce through his very cloths. The 
boy Jurslicos alfo, winning the prize inall games and feats of activitie, was of his making ; for 
whofe lake Xenovhon wrote his booke entituled Syzpofion:likewife that noble image of Japzter in 
the Capitoll of Rome, furnamed Thundering, which is commended above all others : as alfo 
Apotllo,with a crowne or diademe, | ? 
Lye.{cus counreriested Laga.a boy,who in maner of a page or lacquey,feemed to be double dili- 
gent,and aftera fattering and deceitful fort performed nothing but eie-fervice.Zycus alfo made 
another boy blowing the coalesfor to maintain fire. Menechmus devifed to caft in brafle a Calfe, 
turning up che aecke and head ar the man tharfetceth hisknee upon his fides,& keepeth his body 
down. Lhis Avenechusus was afingular imageur,and himfelfe wrote a book as concerning his own 
art, Nascides was judged to be an excellent workman by the making of Mercuric,& of a Difcobole 
or coiter :as alfo for counterfeiting in brafle one that was a facrificing or killing a Ram. Navcerws 
woon credit by making of a wreftler, puffing & blowing for wind, Ncerates had the name for the 
curious workmanthip of sefculapizs and *Hyzia,which areto be {een at Romewithin thecemple - 
of Concord.Pyvomachws got great reputation by a coach drawn with four fteads,&ruled by Alabs- 
ades the coachman,all of his making. ?olicles was the maker ofthat noble peece of work that go- 
eth under the name of Aermaphroditus, Pyrrhus counterfeited in brafle another Hygia & Miner- 
va.And Phawix who learned his art of Ly/ippus lively counterfeited the famous wreltler Epither- 
fes. Stipax the Cyprian got bimfelfa name by an image refembling one Sp/anchnoptes : This was 
a pretic boy or page belonging to Pericles turnamed Olympivs,whom Siipax made frying & ro- 
{ting the inwards of a beaft atthe fire, puffing and blowing thereat with his mouth fullof breath 
and wind, for to make it burne.S#anion did caft the fimilitude of Apolledorws in brafle: who like- 
_ wile was himfelfe a founder and imageur, ‘but of all others moft curious and precife in his art,he 
never thoughtathing of his owne making well done, and no man cenfured his workes fo hardly 
as himfelfe: many a time when hehad finifhed an excellent peece of worke,he would in amiflike 
unto it,paihitin peeces, and never ftood contented and fatisfied withany thing when itwas all 
done, how full of art foever ic was,and therefore he was furnamed Mad: Which furious paffion of 
hisywhen Sv/anion aforefaid would exprefle, hee madenot the man himfelfe alone of brafle, bur 
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