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

Note 2039 — BOOK XXXV. AN ACCOUNT OF PAINTINGS AND COLOURS.

John Bostock translation

He was son of Aristodemus, and brother and pupil of Nicomachus, in addition to Euxenidas, already mentioned in this Chapter. He, Pausanias, and Nicophanes, excelled, as we learn from Athenæus, B. xiii., in the portraits of courtesans; hence their name, πορνόγραφοι.

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