Note 1459 — BOOK XXXIV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS.
John Bostock translation
In her worthless favours, probably. Praxiteles was a great admirer of Phryne, and inscribed on the base of this statue an Epigram of Simonides, preserved in the Greek Anthology, B. iv. Ep. 12. She was also said to have been the model of his Cnidian Venus.