THEBES. 67 
elapsed from the death of this ceieorated chap. 
painter, when Fespnsian visited Greece; but as ( ■■,■<./ 
professions and names continued in the same 
family in that country, and were often trans- 
mitted together to succeeding generations, bis 
son might have found in Thebes a painter to 
represent his father's battles, who thus com- 
memorates his gratitude for the patronage con- 
ferred upon him. It happened at a time when 
it was particularly the practice of the Romans 
to employ Grecian artists in such representa- 
tions : and the graphic^ illustrations of those con- 
quests which Titus, the brother of Domitian, 
had achieved were not long afterwards ex- 
hibited in Rome, where they remain at this 
day. 
A very correct topography of antient Thebes 
might be composed from the traces still dis- 
cernible. The situation of its seven gates* Seven 
. , , • -, T , . . f. Gates of 
might be ascertamed : and as a begmnmg or Tkebis. 
adniatrismoricntise vulneremammam ailrepeiisinfnns : inte!!ig:it-jrque 
sentire mater, tt tiniere iie emortuo lacte sani'uiuem infans lambat : 
quam tabulam Alexander Magnus transtrUr^t Pellain in pntriam 
suam." Plin. ibid. c. 10.^.438. 
(3) Pnusanias calls the represcr.taiions of things, by means of sculp- 
ture, in basso-relievo, TPA<t>Al. 
». r. k. Pausaniec Bceolica, c. 8. p. 727. ed. A'uktiit. 
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