30 CYPRUS. 
CHAP, earlier period, taken from the works of Grecian 
v.— ^^ ' painters. Tiie first style of imitating such 
pictures by engraving was probably that exhi- 
bited by the intaglio, from whose cast the cameo 
was made. Gems of this kind, executed by the 
lapidaries of Greece, even so long ago as the 
age of Zeuxis, may have given origin to the 
Notice of a Thehau Stone. That it does exhibit a subject 
S« "?7 ^^ nearly coinciding with an antient description of 
from an Qj^g Qf j^jg ■hidures, is mauifcst from a fraoment 
ttntient r ' o 
Greek Ma- of the Zeuxis of Lucicui, iuscrtcd as a Com- 
nui>cript. 
mentary upon Gregory Nazianzen. This was 
discovered by the late Professor P or son, in a 
Manuscript of that author brought from the 
Library of the Monastery of the Apocalypse in 
the Isle oi Patmos\ The Commentary would 
perhaps have been illegible to other eyes than 
those of the learned Professor ^ It is, when 
literally translated, as follows. *' That same 
Zeuxis, the best painter that ever lived, did not 
(1) The writing', both of the commentary and of the text, in that 
Manuscrijit, was deemed, by the learned Professor, as antient as that 
of Plato from the same place, now with the copy of Gregory in the 
Bodleinn Library. 
(2) In the first edition, the author had said, that the difficulty of 
deciphering this marginal note would baffle all but Porsonian acumen ; 
but it has been also transcribed with the minutest accuracy by Professor 
Gaisford of Oxford ( Catalogrcs Manuscriptoinim in Biblioth. Bodl. Pars 
Prior, p. 37. Oxon. 1812): and t. ere is this difference in the two 
copies ; that Professor Person's copy, containing all the emendations in 
Hemsterhusius't 
