[2473] In the Ninth Region of the City. These figures are mentioned also by Suetonius, C. 46.
[2475] A singular combination of names, as they mean “Lizard” and “Frog.” No further particulars of these artists are known, but they appear to have lived in the time of Pompey.
[2476] Of Juno and Apollo.
[2477] “Spiræ.” See Chapter [56] of this Book.
[2478] Winckelmann, in Vol. II. p. 269, of the Monumenti Antichi ined., gives the chapiter of an Ionic column, belonging to the church of San Lorenzo, without the walls, at Rome, on the volutes of which are represented a frog and a lizard.
[2479] The old reading is adopted here, in preference to that of the Bamberg MS., which does not appear reconcileable to sense in saying that this temple of Jupiter was originally made in honour of Juno; for in such case there could be no mistake in introducing the emblems of female worship.
[2480] A sculptor of Miletus. See B. vii. c. 21.
[2481] A Lacedæmonian artist. See B. vii. c. 21.
[2482] As well as that of Paros.