[2047] In reference to the age of Apelles, whom he is supposed to have survived.
[2048] In Caria, near to Lycia. Suidas says that he was born at Xanthus in Lycia.
[2049] Or Vestibule.
[2050] Supposed by Sillig to have been an allegorical painting representing two of the sacred ships of the Athenians; but to have been mistaken in later times for a picture of Ulysses and Nausicaa, a subject taken from the Odyssey, B. vi. l. 16, et seq. As to Paralus, said to have been the first builder of long ships, or ships of war, see B. vii. c. 57.
[2051] Or “long ships.”
[2052] Son of Cercaphus and Cydippe or Lysippe, and grandson of Apollo. He is said to have been the founder of the town of Ialysus, mentioned in B. v. c. 36.
[2053] “These four times most probably were, the dead colouring, a first and a second painting, and lastly, scumbling with glazing.”—Wornum, Smith’s Dict. Antiq. Art. Painting.
[2054] See Chapter [40] in this Book.
[2055] “Poppyzonta.” “Smacking with his lips.” Somewhat similar to the s—s—s—s of our grooms and ostlers.
[2056] Poliorcetes.