On the Human Figure. 45

Camels; that is to say, counting eight quintals for a load, the bronze of this statue, after so many years of decay from rust, etc., and what was presumably stolen from it, still amounted to seven hundred and twenty thousand livres, or seven thousand two hundred quintals. Prideaux, part II, book 11.

In the same city, there are still a hundred other smaller colossuses, but each one would suffice to enhance the city where they would be placed. Besides those, there are five colossuses of gods, made by Briaxis. Italy has also produced colossi; for we see in the library of the Temple of Augustus, the Tuscan Apollo, which is fifty feet from the toe, and in which what's most admirable is neither the bronze nor the craftsmanship. Sp. Carvilius, with the cuirasses, helmets, and leg armor of the defeated Samnites, made a Jupiter that is at the Capitol. Its grandeur is such that it can be seen from the square where the Jupiter Latiaires is located. From the filings of this statue, he made his own, which stands at the feet of the statue of the God. Two heads in the same Capitol attract admiration: they were consecrated by Consul P. Lentulus: one made by Chares, whom we mentioned earlier; the other by Decius. But the last one loses so much in the comparison that it appears to be the work of an artist absolutely without merit.

But in our time, Zenodorus has surpassed all large figures of this type with a Mercury he created in a city of Gaul in Auvergne. It took ten years to make and cost 4,000,000 small sesterces (1). After

(1) Four hundred thousand livres.