CHAP. 5.—THE ÆGINETAN BRASS.
The next most esteemed brass was the Æginetan; the island itself being rendered famous for its brass—not indeed that the metal was produced there, but because the annealing of the Æginetan manufactories was so excellent. A brazen Ox, which was taken from this island, now stands in the Forum Boarium[1242] at Rome. This is a specimen of the Æginetan metal, as the Jupiter in the Temple of Jupiter Tonans, in the Capitol, is of the Delian. Myron[1243] used the former metal and Polycletus[1244] the latter; they were contemporaries and fellow-pupils, but there was great rivalry between them as to their materials.