[230]“Penicillus.” This was the hair-pencil or brush, which was used by one class of painters, in contradistinction to the stylus or cestrum used for spreading the wax-colors. Painters with the brush used what we should term “water-colors;” oil-colors, in our sense of the word, being unknown to the ancients.
[231]Μωμήσεται τις μᾶλλον ἡ μιμήσεται. This line is attributed by Plutarch to Apollodorus.
[232]The “Chief of the Galli,” or high-priest of Cybele.
[233]Achilles, which were awarded to Ulysses in preference to Ajax.
[234]Which would make the course of study extend over a period of twelve years.
[235]Dr. Smith says: “The most natural explanation of this difficult passage seems to be, that down the middle of the first line of Apelles, Protogenes drew another, so as to divide it into two parallel halves, and that Apelles again divided the line of Protogenes in the same manner.”
[236]The Latin form of which, as given by Erasmus, is “Nulla dies abeat quin linea ducta supersit.” “Let no day pass by, without an outline being drawn, and left in remembrance.”
[237]“Ne sutor ultra crepidam.” “Let not the shoemaker go beyond his last.”
[238]See Matthew xiii. 57; Mark vi. 4. “A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.”
[239]Odyss. B. vi. 1. 102.