Lysippus

, a famous statuary of Sicyon. He was originally a whitesmith, and afterwards applied himself to painting, till his talents and inclination taught him that he was born to excel in sculpture. He flourished about 325 years before the christian era, in the age of Alexander the Great. The monarch was so partial to the artist, that he forbade any sculptor but Lysippus to make his statue. Lysippus excelled in expre ing the hair, and he was the first who made the head of his statues le large, and the body smaller than usual, that they might appear taller. This was observed by one of his friends, and the artist gave for answer, that his predece ors had represented men in their natural form, but that he represented them such as they appeared. Lysippus made no le than 600 statues, the most admired of which were those of Alexander; one of Apollo of Tarentum 40 cubits high; one of a man coming out of a bath, with which Agrippa adorned his baths; one of So crates; and those of the 25 horsemen who were drowned in the Granicus. These were so valued, that in the age of August us, they were bought for their weight in gold. Plutarch , Alexander .— Cicero , Brutus , ch. 164 ; Rhetoric a ad Herennium , bk. 4 , ch. 148 .— Pliny , bk. 37 , ch. 7 .— Paterculus , bk. 1 , ch. 11 .— Horace , bk. 2 , ltr. 1 , li. 240 .――A comic poet, some of whose plays are mentioned by Athenæus. Pliny , bk. 7 , ch. 37 .――A general of the Achæan league.