[359] Phryne (fl. circa 328 b.c.), a celebrated Athenian hetaira, mistress to Praxiteles, one of whose many statues of her is known as the Cnidian Aphrodite, while Apelles took her for his model for the Aphrodite Anadyomene.—T.
[360] Apelles (fl. circa 332 b.c.), the famous Greek painter. His Aphrodite Anadyomene (vide supra) was originally painted for the Temple of Æsculapius in Cos. It was afterwards bought by Augustus and placed in the Temple of Cæsar in Rome.—T.
[361] Praxiteles (circa 360 B.C.—circa 280 b.c.), the greatest Greek sculptor after Phidias. His Aphrodite of Cnidus ranks as one of the most admired statues of antiquity. A replica of this statue is now in the Glyptothek in Munich.—T.
[362] Leæna (fl. 514 b.c.), the mistress of Harmodius and Aristogiton, the Athenian patriots.—T.
[363] Harmodius (d. 514 b.c.), who, with Aristogiton, delivered Athens from the tyranny of Hipparchus.—T.
[364] Cf., on the Congrès de Vérone, M. Biré's Appendix, Vol. IV., pp. 215-219.—T.
[365] Talleyrand died in Paris on the 17th of May 1838.—B.
[366] Cf. Vol. III., pp. 145 et seq.—T.
[367] Ibid., pp. 171-175.—T.
[368] The Marquis de Maubreuil (cf. Vol. III., p. 86, n. 1), escaping from police surveillance, went, on the 20th of January, to Saint-Denis, during the celebration of the anniversary of the death of Louis XVI., and there, in the midst of the solemnity, he struck Talleyrand in the face and threw him to the ground. Maubreuil was charged with the offense and received sentence; but the affair made a terrible noise, of which Talleyrand's innumerable enemies did not fail to take advantage.—B.