[2067] A contemporary of Philip of Macedon.
[2068] A dithyrambic poet, born at Selinus. He flourished B.C. 398. Only a few lines of his works remain.
[2069] “Breviores etiamnum quasdam picturæ compendiarias invenit.” Delafosse is of opinion that paintings in grotesque are probably meant.
[2070] His country is uncertain, but he probably lived about the time of Apelles.
[2071] In Chapter [40] of this Book.
[2072] He belonged, as Wornum remarks, to the class of genre-painters, or peintres du genre bas, as the French term them. His age and country are unknown.
[2073] “Painter of low subjects.” This term is equivalent in meaning, probably, to our expression—“The Dutch style.”
[2074] “Mæniana.” Balustrades or balconies, said to have been so called from one Mænius, who built them.
[2075] See Chapter [8] of this Book. They are mentioned also in the “Curculio” of Plautus, A. iv. s. i. l. 19. Nothing further is known of Serapio.
[2076] His country is unknown, but he is supposed to have lived in the first century B.C. See also Chapter [40] of this Book.