of Plinies Natural Hitftorie. : 539 
A much andreafon about his art,and many times let fall fome words tolittle purpofe,bewraying his 
ignorance; 4pelles after his mild mannet,would defire his grace to hold his peace,and fay, Sir,no 
more words, for feare the prentife boies there that are grinding of colours, doe laugh you to 
fcorne:So reverently thought the king of him ,that being otherwife achollericke prince, yet hee 
would take any word at his handsin that familiar fort fpoken in the beft part,and bee never offen- 
ded. And verely,what good reckoning. Alexander made of him,he fhewed by one notable argu- 
ment; for having among his coneiettgs one named Campafpe, whom hee fancied efpecially a- 
bove the reft,in regard as well of thataffection of hisas her incomparable beautic,he gave com- 
maundement to Apel/es for to draw her picture all naked : but perceiving 4pelves at the fame time 
to be wounded with the like dart of love as well as himfelf,he beftowed her upon him moft frank- 
B  ly:By which example hee fhewed moreover,that how greata commaunder andhigh minded a 
prince he was otherwife,yet in this maiftering and commaunding of his affections his magnani. 
mitie was more feene: andin this act of his he wan as much honour and glorie as by any victory 
over his enemies, for now hee had conquered himfelfe,and not onely made 4pelies partner with 
him of his love, but alfo gave his affection cleane away from her unto him, nothing moved with 
therefpe@ of her whom beforehefo dearly loved,that being the concubine ofa king, fhe fhould 
- nowbecome the bedfellow of apainter.Some are of opinion, Thatby the patterne of this Came 
palpe, Apelles made the picture of Venus* Anadyomenc, Moreover, Apelles was of a kind bountiful * ;,orzam mac, 
difpofition even to other painters of his time,who commonly as concurrents,do envie one ano- oe out of 
ther. And the firft hee was that brought Profogenes into creditand eftimation at Rhodes; for at ee 
C the firft,his owne countreyman made no accountatall ofhim(a thing ordinarily feen,that in our 
owne countrey we are leaft regarded) but Apelles,for to countenatce and credit the man, deman- 
ded of him what price he would fet of all the pi€tures that he had readie made; Pro/ogenes asked 
fome {mall matter and trifle to fpeake of: howbeit, Apelles efteemed them at fiftie talents,& pro- 
mifed to give fo much for them : raifing a bruit by this meanes abroad in the world, that hee 
bought them forto fell agatne as his owne. The Rhodians hereat were moved and ftirred up to 
take better knowledgeof Profogenes what an excellent workmanthey had of him: neither would 
Protagenes part with any of his pictures unto them, unleffe they would come off roundly and rife 
to a better price than beforetime: As for Apelles he had {uch a dexteritie in drawing pourtraits fo 
lively,and fo neare refembling thofe for whom they were made, that hardly one could be knowne 
D fromthe other; nfomuch,as dppion the Grammarian hath left in writing (a thing incredible to 
be fpoken)thatacertaine Phyfiognomift or teller of Fortune,by looking onely upon the face of 
men and women,fuch as the Greekes call Metopofcopos, judged truly by the pourtraits that 4- 
petles bad drawne,how many yeares they either had lived or were to live,for whom thofe pictures 
were made. But as gracious ashe was otherwife with Alex.nder and his traine, yet he could never 
win the love and favor of prince Pfo!omevs who at that time followed the court of K, Alexander, 
and was afterwards king of Egypt. Itfortuned, that after the deceafe of A/exander, and during 
the reigne of king Prolome atorefaid, this Apelles wasby a tempeft at fea caft upon thecoaft of 
f2gypt, and forced to land at Alexandria: where, other painters that were no wellwillers of his, 
practifed witha jugler ot jeafter of the kings, and fuborned him in the kings name to traine 4pele 
lestotake his {upper with the king. To the court came 4pelles accordingly, and thewed himfelfe 
in the prefence, Ptolomz having {pied him,with a fterneand angrie countenance demanded of 
him what he made there,and who had fent for him 2 and with that fhewed unto him all his fervi- 
tours who ordinarily had the inviting of guefts to thekings table commanding him to fay which 
of allthem had bidden him : wheteat Apelles, not knowing the name of the partie who had 
brought him thither, and beeing thus pur to his (hifts, caught up a dead coale of fire from the 
hearththere by, and began therewith to delineat and draw upon the wall the proportion of that 
coufiner beforefaid. Heehad nofooner pourfiled a little about the vifage, butthe king prefent- 
lytooke knowledge thereby of the partie that had played this pranke by him and wrought him 
thisdifpleafure, This 4pel/es drew the face of king Aatiochus alfo, who had but one eye to fee 
F withall: for to hide which deformitie and imperfection, hee devifed to paint him, turning his vi- 
fage a little away,aid fo he fhewed but the one fide of his face, tothe end, that whatfoever was 
wanting in the picture, might be imputed rather to the painter,thanto the perfon whom he por- 
traied. And in truth;from him came this invention firft to conceale the defeéts and blemifhes of 
the viage, and tomake one halfe face onely, when it might bee reprefented full and whole, if it 
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