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2. " The poets and artists feigned that Hercules sailed in a cup ;" 



ot %OiH\Ta\ Kcti ol ypa^sTg 7rXew- aCrov sv ttoty^ico euv9oXoyvj(rau. Athense. 



lib. xi. c. 5. Casaubon in his commentary says, per pictores, intel- 

 lige omnes simulacrorum artifices, p. 498. 



3. Antipater in an epigram speaks of four Victories sculptured on 

 the pediment of the house of Caius ; they were represented in the 

 act of ascending into the skies, xxt svofjofiov y^u-mov reyog, " on the 

 well roofed pediment sculptured and painted," y. r. says Salmasius, 

 vocat, quod caelaturis et sculpturis domuum fastigia ornarentur, atque 

 etiam auro pingerentur*, sicut et templorum. Not. in H. A. S. p. 423. 



4. ypuirTov TV7rov t '* de sculpta imagine" accepit Reiske in epigram- 

 mate, says Jacobs, -j- Certe yoa-n-To; hanc interpretationem non respuit. 

 Vide Wolfium in Proleg. ad Horn. xlv. 



* An instance of ■paiyited sculpture is pointed out to us by Pausanias in the following 

 passage, Attic. 28. c. " The battle of the Lapithse and the Centaurs on the shield of the 

 statue of Minerva, and whatever else is in relief there was executed, they say, by Mys; 

 and Parrhasius painted for Mys this and the rest of his works; bV« «AA« Io~t\v \nupyau\ikva, 

 \eyovG~i TOpevccti Mvv. tu> ?£ MtA tcivtu ts xoci to. Mitto. twv epywv Yla.ppa.oiov xuTaypafyui. The 

 four first words of this quotation are entirely omitted in the version of Amasaeus. Heyne 

 has produced some instances in which the sense of " work in relief" is given to 

 iTretpya<riJ.iva ; see also Pausanias, Attica, where he informs us, that on each side of the 

 helmet of Minerva in the Parthenon, ypuwes h<rtv knupyao-^ivou Chandler translates im- 

 perfectly the passage, " on the sides were griffins." 



f Anthol. vol. ii. part i. p. 13. 



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