The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 6 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny
400. Several works of his are also mentioned by Pausanias.
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[1490] Or “strigil.” See Note 1435 above.
[1491] The first Grecian slain at Troy.
[1492] Famous also as a painter. See B. xxxv. c. 40.—B. Paris, the son
of Priam, was known by both of these names.
[1493] Q. Lutatius Catulus.
[1494] “Bonus Eventus;” Varro, de Re Rustica, B. i. c. 1, applies
this term to one of the deities that preside over the labours of the
agriculturist. His temple was situate near the Baths of Agrippa.—B.
[1495] In the Eighth Region of the City.
[1496] See Note 1395, page 171.
[1497] Pausanias, B. vi., speaks of a statue of Ancient Greece, but the
name of the artist is not mentioned.—B.
[1498] See B. iv. c, 8.
[1499] Brotero informs us, from Ficoroni, that there is a gem still in
existence on which this design of Eutychides is engraved.—B.
[1500] Thiersch considers him to be identical with the elder Hegesias.
He is mentioned also by Pausanias, B. viii. c. 42.
[1501] See Note 1483, above.
[1502] Dedicated by Augustus on the Capitoline Hill, in the Eighth
Region of the City.
[1503] Sillig distinguishes three artists of this name.
[1504] See B. v. c. 40, and B. vii. c. 2.
[1505] The “Sacrificers of the ox.”
[1506] The son also.
[1507] Martial expresses the same idea in his Epigram, B. i. Ep. 7; but
he does not refer to this statue.—B. Two copies of this Ganymede are
still in existence at Rome.
[1508] Pausanias informs us, B. i. and B. ix., that he saw this statue
in the Prytanæum of Athens.—B. Autolycus obtained this victory about
the 89th or 90th Olympiad.
[1509] It was in honour of a victory gained by him in the _pentathlon_
at the Great Panathenæa, that Callias gave the Symposium described by
Xenophon.
[1510] Martial, B. ix. Ep. 51, where he is pointing at the analogy
between his poems and 95the works of the most eminent sculptors,
probably refers to this statue:—
“Nos facimus Bruti puerum, nos Lagona vivum.”—B.
The reading “Lagonem,” or “Langonem,” certainly seems superior to that
of the Bamberg MS.—“Mangonem,” a “huckster.”
[1511] For some further mention of him, see end of B. iv.
[1512] Delafosse has pointed out the resemblance between this statue
and one of the works of Michael Angelo, representing David kneeling on
Goliath, and pressing back the giant’s neck.—B.
[1513] A native of Argos, who flourished in the 95th Olympiad. He was
the son of Motho, and brother and instructor of the younger Polycletus
of Argos. Several of his statues are mentioned by Pausanias and Tatian.
[1514] Ajasson thinks that three statues in the Royal Museum at Paris
may possibly be copies of this Discobolus of Naucydes.
[1515] The Goddess of Health, and daughter of Æsculapius. Niceratus was
a native of Athens, and is also mentioned by Tatian.
[1516] A “Female sacrificing.” The reading is very doubtful.
[1517] The “Man cooking entrails.” For some further account of this
statue, see B. xxii. c. 20. This artist is unknown, but Thiersch
suggests that he may have been the father of Cleomenes, whose name
appears on the base of the Venus de Medicis.
[1518] The master of the Gymnasium.
[1519] He is twice mentioned by Pausanias: more particularly for the
excellence of his horses and oxen. His country is unknown.
[1520] “The beautiful-legged.” This statue has been mentioned at the
end of Chapter 18, as having been greatly admired by Nero.
[1521] This, it is supposed, is the statue to which Martial alludes in
his Epigram, mentioned in Note 1510 above.—B.
[1522] There were two artists of this name, both natives of Samos. The
present is the elder Theodorus, and is mentioned by Pausanias as having
been the first to fuse iron for statues. He is spoken of by numerous
ancient authors, and by Pliny in B. vii. c. 57, B. xxxv. c. 45, and B.
xxxvi. c. 19, where he is erroneously mentioned as a Lemnian.
[1523] At Crete: Athenagoras mentions him in conjunction with Dædalus.
[1524] See B. vii. c. 21. Hardouin thinks that this bears reference to
the conquest of the younger Marius by Sylla, mentioned in B. xxxiii. c.
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