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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 6 (of 6)

Note 1544 — BOOK XXXIV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS.

John Bostock translation

Pausanias, B. viii., gives an account of a statue of Diana, made of Pentelican marble, by this Cephisodotus, a native of Athens; he is supposed to have flourished in the 102nd Olympiad. In the commencement of this Chapter, Pliny has enumerated a Cephisodotus among the artists of the 120th Olympiad.—B.

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