anon a)nqe/mwn.
Now, from the general character of the allusions in the comic poets, we may safely infer that the picture alluded to was only recently painted; and therefore we are quite prepared to accept the express statement of the Scholiast, that the picture referred to was one painted by Zeuxis, and dedicated in the temple of Aphrodite at Athens, representing Eros in the fairest youthful beauty, and as crowned with roses (comp. Suid. s. v. *)Anqe/mwn).
The date of the Acharnians was B. C. 425 ; and this agrees wonderfully well with the passage in the Protagoras, where it is clearly implied that the painter had already achieved a very high reputation.
It is hardly necessary to remark, that there is no difficulty in explaining the word newsti\ as referring to a period three or four years back, especially when we are dealing with a chronological allusion in Plato.
It is true that each portion of the incidental evidence now adduced has a certain degree of indefiniteness; but some o
