[1431] Cicero remarks, Brut. 86, 296, “that Lysippus used to say that the Doryphoros of Polycletus was his master,” implying that he considered himself indebted for his skill to having studied the above-mentioned work of Polycletus.—B.
[1432] In Chapter [17] of this Book.—B.
[1433] The same subject, which, as mentioned above, had been treated by Polycletus.—B.
[1434] In the Eighth Region of the City.
[1435] Ἀποξυόμενος, the Greek name of the statue, signifying one “scraping himself.”
[1436] The head encircled with rays.
[1437] The lines of Horace are well known, in which he says, that Alexander would allow his portrait to be painted by no one except Apelles, nor his statue to be made by any one except Lysippus, Epist. B. ii. Ep. 1, l. 237.—B.
[1438] This expression would seem to indicate that the gold was attached to the bronze by some mechanical process, and not that the statue was covered with thin leaves of the metal.—B.
[1439] This story is adopted by Apuleius, in the “Florida,” B. i., who says that Polycletus was the only artist who made a statue of Alexander.
[1440] A large group of equestrian statues, representing those of Alexander’s body-guard, who had fallen at the battle of the Granicus.