Burrow, Edward John: The Elgin marbles: with an abridged historical and topographical account of Athens (Band 1): Illustrated with forty plates (London, 1817)

tan horse-breeder; a statue of Timanthes the
pancratiast, Azan Phiiippus the pugilist, and
a statue near the pillar of Chionis; in Helicon,
a statue of Bacchus, which was considered
44 superior to all his works at Athens, but an
Erectheus." At Elis, in the middle of a semi-
circular gallery, were figures of Jupiter, with
Aurora, and Thetis; and in the same place
statues of famous Greek captains, and their re-
spective most noted enemies ;—Achilles op-
posed to Memnon; Ulysses to Helenas; Dio-
mede to iEneas; Menelaus to Paris; and Ajax
to Deiphobus* Besides these, were statues of
Apollo belonging to the Ephesians; the Her-
cules placed in later days in the Circus Maxi-
mus at Rome; and the well known Discobo-
los^% a fine antique copy of which is to be
found in theTownley collection at the British
Museum, Myron excelled in the extreme
finish and natural effect of his sculptured ani-
mals ; among these have been often men-
tioned a cow, as a complete illusion -f*, a dog,

* Quid tarn distortum et elaboratum, quam est ille Discobolos
Myronis ? Quint, ii. 13.

f Ut similis vens vacca Myronis optfs*

Ovid. lib. iv. el. i. ver. 34.