[1501] See Note [1483], above.
[1502] Dedicated by Augustus on the Capitoline Hill, in the Eighth Region of the City.
[1503] Sillig distinguishes three artists of this name.
[1504] See B. v. c. 40, and B. vii. c. 2.
[1505] The “Sacrificers of the ox.”
[1506] The son also.
[1507] Martial expresses the same idea in his Epigram, B. i. Ep. 7; but he does not refer to this statue.—B. Two copies of this Ganymede are still in existence at Rome.
[1508] Pausanias informs us, B. i. and B. ix., that he saw this statue in the Prytanæum of Athens.—B. Autolycus obtained this victory about the 89th or 90th Olympiad.
[1509] It was in honour of a victory gained by him in the pentathlon at the Great Panathenæa, that Callias gave the Symposium described by Xenophon.
[1510] Martial, B. ix. Ep. 51, where he is pointing at the analogy between his poems and 95the works of the most eminent sculptors, probably refers to this statue:—