[2009] In B. vii. c. 38.
[2010] Also known as “Campaspe,” and “Pacate.” She was the favourite concubine of Alexander, and is said to have been his first love.
[2011] “Venus rising out of the waters.” Athenæus says, B. xiii., that the courtesan Phryne was his model, whom, at the festival of Neptune, he had seen enter the sea naked at Eleusis.
[2012] See Matthew xiii. 57; Mark vi. 4. “A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country.”
[2013] “Physiognomists.”
[2014] “Vocatores”—more literally, his “inviting officers.”
[2015] Strabo mentions a portrait of Antigonus in the possession of the inhabitants of Cos.
[2016] See Note [2011] above. Propertius mentions this as his greatest work. B. III. El. 9, l. 11. “In Veneris tabulâ summam sibi ponit Apelles.” “In his picture of Venus, Apelles produces his masterpiece.” It is mentioned also by Ovid, Tristia, B. II. l. 527, and Art. Amor. B. III. l. 401. The line in B. III. l. 224 is also well known—
“Nuda Venus madidas exprimit imbre comas.”
“And naked Venus wrings her dripping locks.”