208 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED IN MOTION. 
Some other attempts to see hoplite runners in existing works of 
sculpture have not been so successful. ‘Thus Rayet’s attempt to resus- 
citate the old interpretation of Quatremére de Quincy, who had explained 
the statue of the so-called Borghese Warrior by Agasias of Ephesos 
(Fig. 43) as that of a hoplitodrome just before reaching the goal, has 

Fic. 43.—Statue of the so-called Borghese War- 
rior. Louvre, Paris. 
been recently revived again by Six.’ This famous marble statue of the 
Louvre, belonging to late Greek art, is an example of the last develop- 
ment in the Argive-Sikyonian school, which for centuries had been 
1Rayet, II, Pls. 64, 65 (head); B. B., no. 75; Bulle, 88; von Mach, 286; Reinach, Rép., I, 154 
1-4; M. W., I, Pl. 48, 216; F. W., 1425; H. B. Walters, The Art of the Greeks, Pl. XLIX; Gardner, 
Abk., p. 513, fig. 136; J. Six, De Beteekenis van het Leelijke in de Grieksche Kunst, p.29; his theory has 
been contested by Kalkman, Jd., X, 1895, p.64andn.50. Thestatueis 1.55 meters high (Bulle). 
