[1371] Praxiteles held a high rank among the ancient sculptors, and may be considered as second to Phidias alone; he is frequently mentioned by Pausanias and various other classical writers. Pliny gives a further account of the works of Praxiteles in the two following Books.—B.
[1372] He was also an eminent painter, and is also mentioned by Quintilian, Dio Chrysostom, and Plutarch.
[1373] Another reading is “Echion.”
[1374] See B. xxxv. cc. [32], [36].
[1375] This great artist, a native of Sicyon, has been already mentioned in B. vii. c. 39, and in the two preceding Chapters of the present Book; he is again mentioned in B. xxxv. c. [39].—B. See note [1344] above.
[1376] Also a native of Sicyon. He is mentioned by Tatian.
[1377] Mentioned also by Pausanias, Plutarch, Strabo, and Appian. The next two names in former editions stand as one, “Euphronides.”
[1378] Supposed to have been an architect, and builder of the Pharos near Alexandria: see B. xxxvi. c. [18]. The same person is mentioned also by Strabo, Lucian, and Suidas.
[1379] An Athenian. He is mentioned also by Pausanias, Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, and Tatian.