Pausanias; Harrison, Jane Ellen [Hrsg.]: Mythology & monuments of ancient Athens: being a translation of a portion of the 'Attica' of Pausanias by Margaret de G. Verrall (London , New York: Macmillan & Co., 1890)

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DIV. D

sented “going on” at each other in somewhat pot and kettle
fashion :—
“ ‘ Y’re a bull, why don’t you plough, you lazy beast,
Instead of lying up there, a queer sort of guest at a feast ? ’
‘Why aren’t you off, you ram, to the pastures green?
Standing a silver image, a sight to be seen.’
‘ I stand here mute
Just to shame you lying there, you idle brute.’”
Epigrams of this sort, put into the mouth of the votive offer-
ings, were very popular, and it is to them we owe a good deal of
our knowledge of ancient statues.
Very possibly not far from here may have stood the famous
heifer of Myron.

ADDENDUM TO SECTION XVI
Dr. Dorpfeld writes to me :—
Page 405 — “ Two other blocks of the Strongylion basis have been
found—the one to the north of the Chalkotheke, the other near the north-
west corner of the Parthenon. I believe, that the horse stood north of the
Chalkotheke.”