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et pictorem fuisse : cf. of Pytha- goras, § 60 ; of Fheidias, xxxv, 54. 7. Zenonis : he was boin at Kition. His features are known from the bust at Naples, Schuster, Ueier die erhal- tenen Porirdts der Gr. Philosophen, pi. iv, I, I a. Cypria expeditione : vii, 113, when Cato went to Cyprus as Quaestor cum iure practorio to confiscate the property of Ptolemy, which was put up to auction. §93. 10. auctoris incerti : this suffices to discredit the proposed identification of this statue with the He...rakles of Polykles, mentioned Cic. ad Alt. vi, I, 17. //. BRONZE STATUARY 79 Of all artists, however, Kallimachos has received the most dis- 02 tinctive name. He was always too severe a critic of himself, and -^a^'^^*- incessantly laborious; from this he received the surname oi'^mggkr' KaTa-nj^iTexvos, Or the Niggler — a noteworthy warning that even diligence has its limits. By him we have a group of Spartan girls dancing, a work of faultless technique, which has, however, lost all charm through over elaboration.
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