1Whether this inscription was placed there during the life of Phidias does not appear; but it is highly improbable, and not in harmony with the practice of the Greeks.

2Themistius, Orat. adeum qui postulaverat ut ex tempore sermonem haberet.

3t??t??e?, p??sta?, ?a???t?p??, ?????????, afe??, ???s?? a?a?t??e? ?a? ???fa?t?? ?????f??, p?????ta?, t??e?ta?. This passage is generally cited as a statement by Plutarch that Phidias employed all these men; but in fact he is only urging, in justification of Pericles, and in answer to attacks made against him for expending such large sums of money in the public works, that these works gave employment to the enumerated classes of artists and mechanics.

4The date of the birth of Pericles is unknown, but he began to take part in public affairs in B.C. 469, when he could not probably have been less than twenty-one years of age. This would place his birth at 490. He died in 429; and this reckoning would make him only sixty-one at his death.

5A full transcript of these inscriptions will be found in Dr. Brunn’s Geschichte der griechischen KÜnstler, i. 249.

6See Lysias’s Frag., ?e?? t?? t?p??; also, MÜller’s Ancient Art, 360, and King’s Antique Gems.

7“Non ex ebore tantum sciebat Phidias facere simulacrum, faciebat et ex Ære. Si marmor illi, si adhuc viliorem materiam obtulisses, fecisset quale ex illa fieri optimum potuisset.”—Seneca, Epist. 86.

8Du Moulage en PlÂtre chez les Anciens, par M. Charles C. Perkins, correspondant de l’AcadÉmie des Beaux Arts, etc. Paris, 1869.

9Pliny, Nat. Hist., lib. xxxv. ch. xii.

10So also Fronto in his De differentiis Vocabulorum, published by Cardinal Mai from palimpsests, says: “Vultus proprie hominis—os omnium—facies plurium.”

11According to Æschines, in his oration against Ctesiphon, Miltiades desired that his name should be inscribed on this portrait statue, which was placed in the Poecile; but the Athenians refused their permission.

12See Cicero ad Atticum, xii. 41.

13iii. 12, § 13; viii. 14, § 5.

14Geschichte der griechischen KÜnstler, vol. i. p. 403.

15vii. 3, ii 8. See, also, Pliny, xxv. 49.

16See, also, an account of these “imagines” in Polybius, vi. 53.

17Et quoniam animorum imagines non sunt, negliguntur etiam corporum. Aliter apud majores, in atriis hÆc erant quÆ spectarentur, non signa externorum artificum, nec Æra aut marmora. Expressi cera vultus singulis disponebantur armariis ut essent imagines quÆ comitarentur gentilicia funera.—Book 35, ch. 2.

18??af???? d? d??e? ?a? p??? t? ?p???ata p??? t?? ?????.

19Lib. ix. ch. 23; Lib. i. ch. 40; Lib. viii. ch. 22.

20Spartian., Sev. Hadrian, 22.

21De Errore Profanarum Religionum. Vid. Lobeck aglaopham, p. 571.

22As Lysistratus and his brother lived about the 114th Olympiad (324 B.C.), if these works found at Kertch were plaster casts, it is plain that Lysistratus did not invent casting, since these were before his time; and if Pliny means to say that he did, he is evidently quite wrong.

23Pliny says “exemplar.”

24?t???a??? ?? ??t? ?a???????? ?p? ??tt??e??? st????? te ?a? et?f?e???· T??a? d? ?? ?e????? ?f? s?at? ??as?e?? pa?????t? ???? t???? Sf?a??da ?a???? p?sa? ??t?p??e???.

25See Divin. Inst., lib. i. c. 6.

26Val. Soranus, cited by St. Augustine, De Civit. Dei, lib. vii. c. 9.

27See these passages and others cited in S. Justinus, Cohortat. ad GrÆc. et de Monarchia; Clement of Alexandria, Stromat., lib. v., et Admonitio ad Gentes; S. Cyrillus Alexandrinus, Contra Julianum, lib. i.; Athenagoras, Legat. pro Christian.; Theodoretus, Graec. Affectionum: Curat, lib. 7.

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