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ἐχόντων: devoted to. See on ἔχῃ i. 6. 13.

ἐργασίας ἕνεκα: as a profession.

τινί, τούτοις: as in i. 2. 62.

εἰσελθὼν μέν: corresponds to πρὸς δὲ Κλείτωνα εἰσελθών in 6.

Παρράσιον: a famous painter from Ephesus, who resided at Athens, and at this time was a young man, perhaps thirty years the junior of Zeuxis (i. 4. 3). Pliny says of him primus symmetriam picturae dedit, primus argutias vultus, elegantiam capilli, venustatem oris, confessione artificum in lineis extremis palmam adeptus Hist. Nat. xxxv. 10.

γραφική: without the art., as σωφροσύνη i. 2. 23. The pred. εἰκασία, as containing the definition, takes the article.

ἐκμιμεῖσθε: you reproduce to the life.

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