[1411] This figure is referred to by Ovid, De Ponto, B. iv. Ep. 1, l. 34, as also by a host of Epigrammatic writers in the Greek Anthology.
[1412] See the Greek Anthology, B. vi. Ep. 2.
[1413] “Player with the Discus.” It is mentioned by Quintilian and Lucian. There is a copy of it in marble in the British Museum, and one in the Palazzo Massimi at Home. The Heifer of Myron is mentioned by Procopius, as being at Rome in the sixth century. No copy of it is known to exist.
[1414] Seen by Pausanias in the Acropolis at Athens.
[1415] Or “Sawyers.”
[1416] In reference to the story of the Satyr Marsyas and Minerva, told by Ovid, Fasti, B. vi. l. 697, et seq.
[1417] Persons engaged in the five contests of quoiting, running, leaping, wrestling, and hurling the javelin.
[1418] Competitors in boxing and wrestling.
[1419] Mentioned by Cicero In Verrem, Or. 4. This Circus was in the Eleventh Region of the city.
[1420] See the Anthology, B. iii. Ep. 14, where an epigram on this subject is ascribed to Anytes or Leonides; but the Myro mentioned is a female. See Sillig, Dict. Ancient Artists.