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A __ Icannotraunge in a lower degree unto thefe, the three Charites or Graces, which areto bee 
{eene in the Baffle court before the Citadell of Athens, the which * Socrates made; I meanie not * Some take 
that Socrates whome I reckoned among painters,although fome thinke hee was the fameman, ts! "'he | 
As for Myre, (whome I commended for a fingular imageur in braffe) there is ia marbleiof his ie Gus 
pourtraying & engraving,an old woman drunken, which he made for them of Smy:na;a peece mous. 
ofworke as much efteemed and fpoken of, as any other. And here [cannot burthinke of Polio 
Afinius who (as he wasa man of a ftirring fpirit and quicke conceit) delighted to have his: libra- 
rie and monuments to be enriched with fuch antiquities as thefe; foramong them, aman fhail 
fee the Centaurs cary behind them upon their croupe,the Nymphs, which va7ehe/itas wiovght; 
the Mufes named The({piades, of Cleomenes his cutting ; Oceanus and upper, done bythe hand 
Bi of Evtochus; the ftatues on horfebacke refembling women called Hippiades; which Srephanus 
wrought; the joynt-images of Mercurie and Crpid, called Hermerotes,the workmanthip of Tans 
~ rifcus ([meane not the graver, of home I{pake before, butanother Zauraiwsot Trallets ; ) Jv 
( peter farnamed Xevwivs or Hofpitalis which came out of the hands of Pamphilws an apprentice to 
/ Praxiteles :as for the brave peece of worke,to wit, Zetws, Amphion Dirce, the Bull, andthe bond 
wherewith Dirce was tied, allin one entier ftone, which was brought from Rhodesto Rome sit 
~ was done by Apollonius & Tauzifcws thefe men made queltion of them{elvesywho fhouldbe theit 
fathers ? profefiing in plaine tearms, that Menvcr ates was taken and{uppoled their facher,bur ins 
deed 4rtemidorws begat them, and was theirfather by nature sand snthie fame place;among 
other monuments, the f{tatue of father Bacchus made by Extych:des,is much commended:Mores 
over,neare unto the gallerie of Odzavia, there isthe image of Apello, wrought by Pbalfcws the 
Rhodian ; and he ftandeth ina chappell of his owne, /tew, Latona,Diana/thenine Mufes,and 
another Apollo naked. As for that pollo, who inthe fame temple holdeths in his haridailarpe, 
Timarchidesswas the workman of it: but in the precing orcloittre of thefaid galleriesjandiathe 
chappell of Jvw0, there is the goddefle her -feife curioully made in marble, the bandyworke of 
Dionyfius and Poyeles; but the image of Venus inthe fame place, Péihifcws wrought: ail other 
ftatues there, came oxt of Praxiteles his hands. Moreover, Polycles and Dionyfine, the hones of 
Timar chides, made that Jupiter which isin chenext chappell:theimagesof Pay and Olympus, 
wreftling togither in the fame place,were the workemanthip of Heliodorws ;and this is on€.of the 
twofaireft images coupled togither as wreftlers, that areknowne in the world: as for Venm ba- 
D thing her felfe he alfo made her; but Dedalus ftanding by, Polycharmus, As touching one pecce 
of worke thately/res made, it may appeare howhighly it was efteemed, by the honourable place 
wherein it ltood ;for Aaguftws Cafar lace Emperour of happie memorieytothe honourot Oda= 
vies ins father, dedicatedit in mount Palatine over the triumphant arch there; & placed itwith- 
in 2 fhrine or tabernacle adorned with colummnes : but whatmight this worke be?{urelynothing 
elfe but a chariot with foure horfesfet unto it, Apadoand Déaza,all of oneentirépecce: Withia 1229 - 
the gardens of Serv:lims,1 findthereis great praite of Apollo made by Calamis, thar fingular * 
graver in metrall : the religious prieftsand prophereflesalfoof P4abus,calledPythex;doneby _,, 
Daltylt:3 and Callifthenesthe Hiltoriographers ftacue, wrought by amphiflratius, > 9s.clove: 
Moreover; many cunning workemen there were,whofe fame notwitht{tanding is obfeured,by 
eafon that albeit many fingular peeces & thofe unmatchable,have pafiedthroug h their hands, 
yet for that many have joysied in the workmanfhip togither,the numberchathben a checke and - 
barre to the excellencie of fome that wentbeyond their fellows ; forneithen isthere one among 
them that'goeth away cleare with the honor from the reft,act many togither can wellbenamed 
for one thitig :and this may bee feene inthe image of Laocoon; whichyremaimeth within the pal- 
lace of Emperour Titus ,apeece of worke to be preferred (no doubt): before all pidtaresorcatt 
images whatfoever ;and yet we know not what one artificer to praife for it. Agefander, Palydorus, 
and Athenodorws Rhodians, moftexcellent workemen all, agreed by one general confenvto ex- 
preffe lively in’onc entire ftone, Zaocooz him(clfe, his children, and the woonderfullintricat win- 
ding ofthe ferpents,clafping and knitting them about:femblably,thehoufes Palatine of the Ca. 
F fars,a man thall ee fully furnithed with right excellent ftatues, which raterus and Pythidorws, 
Polyd-ttes with Hermolaws another Pythodorus a\{o joined with his fellow Arthemon,yronghtto- 
gither; as alfothofe that 4phrodsfius Trallianus alone himfelfe,did cut..As forthe temple called 
Pantheon,which “grippa built, Diogenes of Athens enriched itwith marble images. The vir- 
ginsalfo going under the name of Caryatides, ereCted upon the chapters of the columnes in that 
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