antiques, in 1796. These works were restored by the allies, in 1815. Ctesilas flourished about B. C. 432, was a cotemporary of Phidias, and with him and others competed for the prize offered for six statues of the temple of Diana at Ephesus; the first was awarded to Polycletus, the second to Phidias, and the third to Ctesilas. He also distinguished himself by a number of other works, among which were a statue of Pericles, and a Wounded Amazon.
FABIUS MAXIMUS.
It was not until the second Punic war that the
Romans acquired a taste for the arts and elegancies
of life: for though in the first war with Carthage,
they had conquered Sicily (which in the old Roman
geography made a part of Greece), and were masters
of several cities in the eastern part of Italy,
(which were inhabited by Grecian colonies, and
adorned with pictures and statues in which the
Greeks excelled all the world,) they had hitherto looked
on them with so careless an eye, that they were not
touched with their beauty. This insensibility long
remained, either from the grossness of their minds,
or from superstition, or (what is more likely) from a
political dread that their martial spirit and natural
roughness might be destroyed by Grecian art and
elegance. When Fabius Maximus, in the second
Punic war, captured Tarentum, he found it full of
riches, and adorned with pictures and statues, particularly
with some fine colossal figures of the gods
