66 THEBES: 
CHAP, account of this artist, has made ns acquainted 
■ with two very curious facts. The first is, that 
picture-cleaners did as much mischief in his time 
as they do now^ The second, that it is an 
error to suppose that the Greek painters, who 
generally represented the human countenance- 
by a single outline in profile upon the terra-cotta 
vases, were not as well acquainted with the art 
of delineating the passions as the best of our 
modern artists. Take, for example, the inter- 
esting anecdote which Pliny has afforded, among 
others, of the dying mother lying wounded and 
bleeding among the victims in the sacking of a 
city, whose infant was represented as creeping 
to reach her breast, while in her countenance 
were pictured all the emotions of tenderness and 
fear, lest her child, wanting the milk, should 
suck the blood of its parent'; a picture upon 
this account so highly valued, that jilexander 
caused it to be removed to Pella, the place of 
his nativity ^ Above four hundred years had 
(1) "Tragoedum et puerum, in Apollinis : cujus tabulae gratia in- 
teriit pictoris inscitia, cuitergendam earn mandtveratM.Junius Praetor 
sub die ludorum Apollinarium." Plin. Hist. Nat. lib.xxxv. c. 1 1. torn. 
III. p. 439. 
(2) " Aristides Thehanus: is omuium primum animum, piuxit, et 
sensus omnes expressit, quos vocant Graeci ethe : item per tur- 
batlones : durior paul6 in co'oribus, IIujus pictura est, oppido oapto 
ad 
