[1519] He is twice mentioned by Pausanias: more particularly for the excellence of his horses and oxen. His country is unknown.
[1520] “The beautiful-legged.” This statue has been mentioned at the end of Chapter [18], as having been greatly admired by Nero.
[1521] This, it is supposed, is the statue to which Martial alludes in his Epigram, mentioned in Note [1510] above.—B.
[1522] There were two artists of this name, both natives of Samos. The present is the elder Theodorus, and is mentioned by Pausanias as having been the first to fuse iron for statues. He is spoken of by numerous ancient authors, and by Pliny in B. vii. c. 57, B. xxxv. c. [45], and B. xxxvi. c. [19], where he is erroneously mentioned as a Lemnian.
[1523] At Crete: Athenagoras mentions him in conjunction with Dædalus.
[1524] See B. vii. c. 21. Hardouin thinks that this bears reference to the conquest of the younger Marius by Sylla, mentioned in B. xxxiii. c. [5]. Müller and Meyer treat this story of the brazen statue as a fiction.
[1525] Probably the same author that is mentioned at the end of B. [xxxiii]. See also B. xxxv. c. [36].
[1526] The Galli here spoken of were a tribe of the Celts, who invaded Asia Minor, and afterwards uniting with the Greeks, settled in a portion of Bithynia, which hence acquired the name of Gallo-Græcia or Galatia.—B.
[1527] See end of B. [xxxiii]. Attalus I., king of Pergamus, conquered the Galli, B.C. 239. Pyromachus has been mentioned a few lines before, and Stratonicus, in B. xxxiii. c. [55], also by Athenæus.
[1528] A native of Carthage. A work of his is mentioned by Cicero, in Verrem 4, 14, and in the Culex, l. 66, attributed to Virgil. See also B. xxxiii. c. [55].