Chapter 49

writers, though Lysippus is substituted for Polycletus by the more accurate, inasmuch as Polycletus was a sculptor of the fifth century, and contemporary with Pheidias! This is quite characteristic of Apuleius.

_Apelles_, the greatest of Greek painters, floruit circa 332 B.C.

_Pyrgoteles_, one of the most famous gem-engravers of Greece. Little is known of him beyond this story.

_the professor's gown._ Cp. Aulus Gellius, ix. 2, where a man with a long beard and huge cloak tries to persuade Herodes Atticus that he is a philosopher. Herodes replies, 'I see the cloak and the gown, but not the philosopher.'