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marmore scalpendo primi omnium inclaruerunt Dipoenus et Scyllis, geniti in creta insula etiamnum medis imperantibus priusque,
quam Cyrus in persis regnare inciperet. hoc est olympiade circiter quinquagensima. hi sicyonem se contulere, quae diu fuit officinarum omnium talium patria. deorum simulacra publice locaverant iis sicyonii, quae priusquam absolverentur, artifices iniuriam questi abiere in aetolos. protinus sicyonem fames invasit ac sterilitas maerorque dirus. remedium petentibus apollo pythius respondit:
"si Dipoenus et Scyllis deorum simulacra perfecissent."
quod magnis mercedibus obsequiisque impetratum est. fuere autem simulacra ea apollinis, dianae, herculis, minervae,
quod de caelo postea tactum est. -- cum hi essent, iam fuerat in chio insula Melas scalptor,
dein filius eius Micciades ac deinde
nepos Archermus, cuius filii Bupalus et Athenis
vel clarissimi in ea scientia fuere Hipponactis poetae aetate,
quem certum est lx olympiade fuisse. quodsi quis horum familiam ad proavum usque retro agat,
inveniat artis eius originem cum olympiadum initio coepisse.
Hipponacti notabilis foeditas voltus erat; quam ob rem imaginem eius lascivia iocosam
hi proposuere ridentium circulis,
quod Hipponax indignatus destrinxit amaritudinem carminum in tantum,
ut credatur aliquis ad laqueum eos conpulisse.
quod falsum est. conplura enim in finitimis insulis simulacra postea fecere, sicut in delo, quibus subiecerunt carmen
non vitibus tantum censeri chion,
sed et operibus Archermi filiorum. ostendunt et iasii dianam manibus eorum factam.
in ipsa chio narrata est operis eorum dianae facies in sublimi posita, cuius voltum intrantes tristem, abeuntes exhilaratum putant.
romae eorum signa sunt in palatina aede apollinis in fastigio et omnibus fere, quae fecit Divus Augustus.
patris quoque eorum et deli fuere opera et in lesbo insula.
Dipoeni quidem ambracia, argos, cleonae operibus refertae fuere.
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ROMA
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