Arcesila'us
4. A sculptor in the first century B. C., who, according to Pliny, was held in high esteem at Rome, was especially celebrated by M. Varro, and was intimate with L. Lentulus. Among his works were a statue of Venus Genetrix in the forum of Caesar, and a marble lioness surrounded by winged Cupids, who were sporting with her. Of the latter work the mosaics in the
Mus. Borb. 7.61, and the
Mus. Capit. 4.19, are supposed to be copies.
There were some statues by him of centaurs carrying nymphs, in the collection of Asinius Pollio.
He received a talent from Octavins, a Roman knight, for the model of a bowl (
craterer), and was engaged by Lucullus to make a statue of Felicitas for 60 sestertia; but the deaths both of the artist and of his patron prevented the completion of the work. (
Plin. Nat. 35.45,
36.4. §§ 10, 13 : the reading
Archesitae, in § 10, ought, almost undoubtedly, to be
Arcesilae or Arcesilai.)
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