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this image was modelled in wax, as our wax-work is 
made to this day, and painted in natural colours, in 
order to come the nearer to nature. Pliny’s words 
are very clear in this ; “ exprefii cera voltus fingulis 
“ diiponebantur armariis, ut elfent imagines, quas co- 
<c mitterentur gentilitia funera, &c.” And it is alfo 
evident, that in order to take the true refemblance of 
theperfons,whofe buds they intended to make for thefe 
purpofes, they took off a plaider mafk from the face, 
and by way of mould, cad melted wax into it; where- 
by they obtained every feature, and afterwards made 
it perfedt by repairing with proper tools. This is 
fully declared in his 12th chapter of the fame book, 
which treats of plailics : wherein after he has men- 
tioned Dibutades a potter of Sicyon to be the firff 
inventor of forming the likenefs of things in clay or 
plader, and of firft making images upon the corners 
of his tiles, he gives the invention of taking off mafks 
from the face, for making buds, to Lifidratus, of the 
fame town, brother of Lyfippus, in thefe words : — 
u Hominis autem imaginem gypfo e facie ipfa 
“ primus omnium, expredit, ceraque in earn for- 
“ mam gypfi infufa, emendare indituit Lifidratus 
c< Sicyonius, frater Lyffippi; hie et fimilitudinem 
“ reddere indituit. — crevitque res in tantum, ut nulla 
“ figna datuaeve fine argilla derent; quo adparet 
cl antiquiorem hanc fuiffe feientiam, quam fundendi 
“ aeris.” In a word, they appear, in the fequel of 
this chapter, to have imitated fruits, fifhes, and every- 
thing elfe, by making clay moulds, and calling the 
wax or other matter into them. It is, by the way, 
remarkable, that in all thefe cafes of calling or mo- 
delling cera is in the lingular number, and mud be 
taken 
