Note 20 — Chapter VII · THE FIGURE IN ENAMEL AND THE ENGRAVED PLATE AT THE BACK OF IT
Reading edition
Philostratus, Icones, i. 28:—the horsemen are described as—ἀργυροχάλινοι καὶ στικτοὶ καὶ χρυσοῖ τὰ φάλαρα. Ταῦτά φασι τὰ χρώματα τοὺς ἐν ὠκεανῷ βαρβάρους ἐγχεῖν τῷ χαλκῷ διαπύρῳ, τὰ δὲ συνίστασθαι καὶ λιθοῦσθαι, καὶ σώζειν ἃ ἐγράφη.