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no effect, but daily broken, they thoughtit better pollicie to make no lawes atall for reftraint of G 
fach colunines, than co have them infringed, or at leaftwife,not obferved when they were made : 
yet are we in thefe daies in better order than fo, and Idoubrnot but the age and generation fol 
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lowing will juftifie and approve of,as in comparifon of them : for where is there one inRome at . 
this day,who hath in the portaile or entric of his hovfe any columnes,that for bigneffe and price 
comeneare to thofe of S¢a#vs? But before that I enter farther into this difcourfe of Marbles and - 
_ other rich ftones,it fhall be good to {peak fomewhat of the men that have excelled in the cutting 
thereof,and whofe workmanthip hath caried the greateft price.Firft therefore J will goethrough 
with the artificers themf{elves, 
Hsn ca’ Cray, itn 
Oh The first Imageurs that werein name for cutting in Marble,andin what 
naw: ages they flourifhed. 
! “=F He firft that we read renowmed for graving and carving in marble, were Dipenus and Seyl- 
4) 4s,both Candiots borne: who during the Empireand Monarchie of the Medes, and be- 
_ fore that Cyrms began hisreigne in Perfia, lived in great fame; and that was inthe filtieth. 
Olympias or thereabour. Thefe men went together unto Sicyone (acitie, which I may truly fay. 
was for a long ume the very native countrey that brought foorh the excellent workemen in all 
kinds of mettals and minerals,){tfortuned at the fametime,that the nagiltrats of Sicyone,had 
bargained with them for certaine images of the gods to be made at the publicke charges of the 
citie; but thefe artificers,who had undertaken the thing, agerceved at fome wrongs offered unto 
them, departed in Atolia before they had finifhedthe faid images, and fo left them unperfed, 
Prefently upon this,thereenfued a greatfamin among the Sicyonians,by,occafion tharthe earch 
failed to yeeld encreafe: tie citizens therefore full of forrow and heavinefle, tearing urter defola- 
tion, had recourfe unto the Oracle of Apollo Py:bius, to know what remedie for this calamutie ; 
and this anfwere was delivered unto them from thefaid god, That according to their peution, 
they fhould find meanes for to be eafed of this plague,in cale Dipenus and. cyll:s had once fini- 
{hed the images of the gods,which they begun, And this wasperformed accordingly, but with 
much difficulue, for they were faine co pay whatfoe ver they, would demaund : they, were, glad, 
alfo to pray unto them with cap in hand. And what imagesmought thefe bee?Even  4peila, 
Diana, Hercules and Adinerva : and this Jaft named,was afterwards fmitten and blafted wich fire: 
from heaven, ee oc Sian 7 
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2g Of fingular peeces of worke and excellent artificers incutting and graving Marble, 
tothe number of 126. Of the white Marble of Parossandof the © (16% 
frately fepulchre called Maufoleam, (aloeiaieg 10 9bAm 
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Ong time before Dipwnus and Scyllis, there had beene in the Ifland Chios one 2e/zs,a cut- 
L ter and graver in marble: after whom, his fonne Mzcciades fucceeded,and hee likewife left a 
fonne behind hin,named dathermus,of thefaid Iflea cunning workeman: whofe two fons 
Bupalus and Anthermu: proved al{o moft skilfull Imageurs. Thefe flourifhed in the daies of A7p- 
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pouax.the Poét,who(as it 1s wel] knowne)lived in the 60 Olympias.- Now, ifamanwillcaleulare 
the times, according to the genealogie cf thefe two laft named, and count backward in, afeént 
no higher than to their great-grandfire,he fhall find by the ordinarie courfe of Nature, tyat tire 
art of cutting and graving in ftone, is equall in antiquitie to the original]. and beginning of the 
Olympiades, But to prove that thete two, Bupalus and Authermus, lived in the daics of Hippunax, 
abovenamed, recorded it is; That the faid Poér had a paffing fovlé and illfavored face of hs owns, 
and thefe Imageurs could find no better {port, than tocounterfeit both himsand hisvilage,as 
lively as poflible might be in ftonesand in a knaverie to fer the fame up in open place where mera 
ric youths met in knots together,andfoto propofe himasa laughing flocketothe whole world. 
Hippoaax could not endure this indignitie,but for to be revenged uponthele companions, {har- 
pened his ftyle or pen againit them, and {fo courfed them with bitter rimes and biung libels, thar 
as fome doe thinke and verely beleeve,being wearic of their lives, they knit their necks in haleers, 
‘ ; hae oh ae ; “and 
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