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A  cretpropertie in it more than hinfelfe knew of, brake the bargaine,called for the picture againe, 
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and would not fuffer it to be caried away,notwithftanding Attalzs complained much at the hard 
meafure offered unzo him; and fo he brought it with him to Rome,and dedicated itin the chap= 
pell of Ceres.And verely,this I take to be the firft painted table of a forrainers making,that ever 
was fet upin publicke placeat Rome. Burafter he had once begun, [fee it was an ordinary thing 
to adorn and beautifie even the common place alfo with fuch like: for upon'this occafion arofe 
that pretie {coffe; whiclrwas given by Cra//us the Oratour,as hee pleaded upon a'time under the 
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*old Roftra:for when there was awitnefle produced to depofe againfthim,whonv he would feem! + 543 vercribay 
to challenge and reproved, whereupon the partie replied again, and urged himinftantly inchefe which fome in- 
tearmes ! Speake out'Cra/sus, 8 in the face of allthis court fay, VWhat kind of perfon you would tert 7/7 
~ make meto be? Marie(quoth hee)apaine)take thee to béefuch an one (pointing direly toa? 
table hanging thereby, wherein was painted acertaine Frenchman yawning andielling out his Qutntitiansa 
tongue full illfavoredly.) In the fame Forum or Grand-place at Rome there ftood fometime the teporeth this 
picture of an old {heepeheard leaning upon his crooke,as touching which (for that as it {hou 
{eeine,it was very workmanlike made)when a certaine Dutch Embaffador who beheld it, was de- 
maundedyAt what price he efteemed it, anfwered (hore and quicke, What a queltion is that ? 1 
would novhave fuch an one(were he alive, as I fee he is but painted) though he were given mee 
fornothing. Butif I fhouid{peake at once whoit was that gave the greateft countenance unto 
fuch tables in open view, [ muft needs fay it was Cafar DiGtatour, who fhrined the pi@tures of 4- 
jx and Medea,in no meaner place than before the temple of Venus Geneivix. Next after him 
came M, 4grippa,aman by nature enclined rather to rufticitie than todelights,and more like a 
rude peafantthan acivile gentleman: Bu furely there is extant a worthie Oration of his,and be- 
feeming the principall perfon of a whole cittie, as touching the open fale of all painted tables, 
ftatues,and images, that were in the handsof privat men, and the fetting of them up in publicke 
places for toadorne thecitie : which no doubthad benfarre better,than to,have them banifhed 
(asit were) and fent as they be intothe countrey,for to beautifie manors and retiring houfes of 
pleafure: howbeit,asfterne and grim afir as hee was, hee could findin his heart to beftow upon 
twotables with the pictures of Kenusand Ajzx,twelve thoufand felterces, which hee paicd unto 
the Gyzicenes for them, Alfo ne had caufed to be fetin marble ftone enchafed, within the hoteft 
pariot his bathes,maay-rich piGtures of afmall making,and couched in fmall tables, the which 
were takenaway but alittle before the faidbathes were repaired. But above all that ever were, 
Cafix Augufivs the Emperour of famous memorie, did fet up in the moft frequented or confpi- 
cuous place of hisForum or ftately hall, two excellent painted tables :the one containing the 
lively pourrait of VWVarre,the otherof Triumph. Hee alfo dedicated the pictures of Caflor and 
Pollax ;befides others; whereof { will writein my catalogue of Painters: which hee hung up all 
withia the temple of Julivs Cefar his father, The fame Auguftus Cafar enclofed within the walk 
of thar-Curia, which he erected and confecrated in the common place named Comitium, two 
tablespainted ; the one refembling the forreft Neinea,in habit of a woman fitting upona Lion, 
fhe ¢carieth in her hand a Date tree, and there ftandeth by her an old man refting upon his ftaffe, 
over whofe headthere was a prettie tablet hanging downe asa labell, from acharriot drawne by 
; awohories with this infcription;Nicias me inu/sit 7. Nicias ennamelled or wrought me with fires 
for that verbe[zmufsi] it pleafed him to ufe. As for the othertable,the admirable workemanfhip 
thereinwas this; An old grey-beard accompanied with his fonne, a youth exceeding likeunto 
his father, fave onely for the differencein age which appeared inthe young downe that {prung 
upon hischeekesand chin, A devifethere was befides of an gle flying over their heads, claf- 
ping.adragon withioher tallons, And asic appeared bythefuperfcription, Philechares was the 
workeman ..By which one table (if there wereno more butitin the whole world) aman may 
make aneftimate of che infinite power that isin this art, which could cavfe the Senat and people 
of Rometo take fuch pleafurefo many yeares together to looke upon Glascion and his. fonne 
Arifisppws, perfons otherwife moft bafe and contemptible,. onely in refpeat of Philochares, who 
painted them. Asfor Tiberius Cafar the Emperour,albeit he wasa prince, of all other leaft cour- 
teous and affable, yet he delighted to hang up thofe painted tables within the temple of gue 
fos Cafar whereof | meane to write hereafters. |oiifl 9 STO 2SROD 
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