Note 125 — ESSAYS. (continued 2)
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Dr. Franklin, the translator of Lucian, without citing any authority, says, there was a second Apelles, and that the Apelles of Alexander and the Apelles of Ptolemy were different persons. It is evident that Lucian himself meant the great Apelles. And the picture of Calumny has always been ascribed to him; I cannot find any mention elsewhere of a second.