Note 67 — ESSAYS.
Reading edition
See Franklin’s Lucian. In the dialogue, Zeuxis, Lucian says, that the original picture of the Centaurs was lost at sea; but that he saw a copy in a picture dealer’s shop, at Athens. It is worth while to refer to Lucian’s dream, for an account of the customs of the sculptors of his day,—the pupils crying casts about the streets, while the masters were labouring themselves.