[1999] Both of whom are mentioned as statuaries, in the early part of B. xxxiv. c. [19].
[2000] Bacchus.
[2001] The generality of Greek writers represent him as a native either of Ephesus, or of Colophon.
[2002] “Venustas.” This word, it has been remarked, will hardly bear a definition. It has been rendered “grace,” “elegance,” “beauty.”
[2003] “Venerem.” The name of the Goddess of Beauty.
[2004] “Gracefulness.”
[2005] “Secuit.” Possibly meaning that he drew another outline in each of these outlines. The meaning, however, is doubtful, and has occasioned much trouble to the commentators. Judging from the words used by Apelles and Protogenes, each in his message, it is not unlikely that the “linea” or outline drawn by each was a profile of himself, and that the profile of Protogenes was drawn within that of Apelles; who, on the second occasion, drew a third profile between the other two, but with a still finer line than either of them. In Dr. Smith’s Dictionary of Biography, art. Apelles, it is thus explained: “The most natural explanation of this difficult passage seems to be, that down the middle of the first line of Apelles, Protogenes drew another, so as to divide it into two parallel halves, and that Apelles again divided the line of Protogenes in the same manner.”
[2006] The Latin form of which, as given by Erasmus, is “Nulla dies abeat, quin linea ducta supersit.” “Let no day pass by, without an outline being drawn, and left in remembrance.”
[2007] “In pergulâ.”
[2008] “Ne sutor ultra crepidam.” Equivalent to our saying, “Let not the shoemaker go beyond his last.”