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We learn from Pliny and Plutarch that there was in the sanctuary at Delphi a large bronze group, the work of Lysippus and Leochares, with a dedication by Craterus, Alexander's lieutenant, representing the rescue of Alexander by Craterus in a lion-hunt. The precision with which certain details are mentioned, (in particular the dogs) seems to show clearly that Plutarch was speaking de visu of this work of art; there is no need to imagine that it was transported to Rome and that it was there he saw it. It is therefore quite possible to suppose that it was still in existence at Delphi at the time of Pausanias's visit. As the Periegetes makes no reference to it, his enemies will not fail to take advantage of this omission; unjustly, for Pausanias did not undertake to give a complete enumeration of even the most important ex-votos, with which in his time the sanctuary at Delphi was still crowded.
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page 273 note 1 H.N. xxxiv. 63–64: nobilitatur Lysippus et temulenta tibicina et canibus ac veiiatione… Idem fecit Alexandri venationem, quae Delphis sacrata est.
page 273 note 2 Alex. 40: ᾿ Επέτεινεν οὖν ἔτι μᾶλλον αὐτὸς ἐαυτὸν ἐν ταῖς στρατείαις καὶ ταῖς κυνηγεσίαις κακοπαθῶν καὶ παραβαλλόμενος ὤστε καὶ Λάκωνα πρεσβευτὴν παραγενόμενον αὐτῷ λέοντα κατα βάλλοντι μέγαν εἰπεῖν Καλῶς γε, ᾿ Αλέξανδρε πρὸς τὸν λέοντα ἠγώνισαι περὶ τᾶς βασιλείας Τοῦτο τὸ κυνήγιον Κράτερος εἰς Δελφοὺς ἀνέθηκεν εἰκόνας χαλκᾶς ποιησάμενος τοῦ λέοντος καὶ τῶν κυνῶν καὶ τοῦ βασιλέως τῷ λέοντι συνεστῶτος καὶ αὑτοῦ προσβοηθοῆντος, ὦν τὰ μὲν Λύσιππος ἔπλασε τὰ δὲ Λεωχάρης
page 273 note 3 See the plan of the Delphic sanctuary in B.C.H. xxi. (1897), or in Frazer's Pausanias, v. Pl. 4.
page 274 note 1 For the younger Crateras cf. Niebuhr, Kleine Schriften, i.; Böckh, C.I.G. i. p. viii. of the preface; Meineke, , Stephani Ethnicorum quae supersunt (Berlin, 1849), p. 214Google Scholarsq.; Müller, , F.H.G. ii. p. 617Google Scholarsq.; Cobet, , Ad Crateri ψηφισμάτων συναγωγήν, in Mnemosyne, 1873, p. 97Google Scholarsq.; Krech, , De Crateri ψ. σ. et de locis aliquot Plutarchi ex ca petitis (1888Google Scholar): Susemihl, , Griech. Litt. in der Alexandrinerzeit, i. p. 599Google Scholarsq. For Alexander, son of the younger Craterus, cf. Monceaux, , B.C.H. vi. p. 526Google Scholarsq.; Wilhelm, , Ath. Mitth. xvi. p. 150Google Scholar, and Ἐφημ, . Ἀρχαιολ. 1892, p. 131.Google Scholar
page 274 note 2 Droysen, (Hist. de l'hellénisme, ii. p. 115Google Scholar of the French translation) supposed that Crateras II. was a posthumous son, a hypothesis negatived by the third line of the Delphic epigram. Cf. Nepos, Cornelius, Vita Eumenis, 4Google Scholar: ossa (Crateri) in Macedoniam uxori eius ac liberis remisit (Eumenes); in order to explain this liberis, Crateras must have had some children by Amastris, the niece of Darius, whom he had married in 324.
page 274 note 3 Examples of this kind of omega on Delphic inscriptions of the third century: (1) Proxenia for Theodoras of Megara, , B.C.H. xxi. p. 316Google Scholar, engraved στοιχηδόν, but belonging to the third century, seeing that it is dated in the archonship of Ornichidas II.; (2) Proxeniai for the Cnidians, , B.C.H. xx. p. 583Google Scholar, note 2; (3) decrees engraved on the ex-voto of the Messenians, , B.C.H. xxi. p. 618Google Scholar; (4) decree for the Thracian king Cotys, , B.C.H. xx. p 476Google Scholar; (5) dedication of the ἀνάλαμμα of the Cnidians; &c. This form of omega, which is unknown to Attic epigraphy, is found outside Delphi, fairly often in the inscriptions of Northern Greece; cf. C.I.G.S.. iii. 33, 34 (Stiris), 658 (Ithaca); I know two unpublished examples, the one in an epigram of Acraephiae of the third century, the other in an epitaph of Amphissa; Mr. Mahaffy has noticed it in the Laches papyrus (Flinders Petrie Papyri, ii. p. 165). The point of interest lies in its appearance in two fairly well-known documents connected with one another, of which the date is placed variously in the third and second centuries (ef. B.C.H. xx. p. 488); these are the decree of the people of Olbiopolis for Protogenes (Latycheff, , Inscr. Pont. Eux. i. p. 31Google Scholar) and the dedication of the tiara of Olbia.
page 275 note 1 Cf. Nöldeke, , Ἀσσύριος Σύριος Σύρος in Hermes, v. (1871), p. 443–468.Google Scholar
page 275 note 2 Q. Curtius, iv. 3, 1.
page 276 note 1 And not in 331, as Judeich, says (Jahrbuch, 1895, p. 172)Google Scholar.
page 276 note 2 Willrich, (Hermes, 1899, p. 233Google Scholar) thinks that the hunt took place at Marathos or at Sidon before the siege of Tyre.
page 276 note 3 Cf. the Lycian sarcophagus from Sidon, and Urlichs, , Scopas, p. 196.Google Scholar
page 276 note 4 Pliny, , H.N. xxxiv. 64.Google Scholar
page 276 note 5 Longpérier, , Rev. Numismatique N.S. xiii. (1868)Google Scholar, Pl. X. et XII. = Oeuvres, iii. p. 168 sq. Pl. IV. et VI. Amer. Jour. of Archaeol. iii. p. 253. Köpp, , 52tesWinckelmannsprogr. p. 13Google Scholar. Pernice, , 58tesWinckelmannspr. p. 14Google Scholar. Hamdi-Bey et Th. Reinach, Une Nécropole royale à Sidon. Collignon, Sculpture grecque, ii. Fig. 229, etc.
page 277 note 1 Löschcke, , Jahrbuch, iii. (1888), p. 189Google Scholar, where the previous bibliography will be found; Collignon, Sculpture grecque, ii. Fig. 313; Dragendorff, , Terra sigillata, p. 57Google Scholar. The illustration in the plate is from a photograph.
page 277 note 2 Dimensions: 18 mm. 5 by 16 mm. 25. The illustration is an enlargement by one-third, from a drawing by Mr. F. Anderson.
page 277 note 3 Cf. Heuzey, art. ‘Causia’ in the Dictionnaire des Antiquités of Daremberg, and Saglio, , and Mission de Macédoine, p. 263Google Scholarsq.
page 278 note 1 For Alexander's wounds, cf. Plutarch, Πєρὶ τῆς Ἀλ. τύχης, i. 2; ii. 25. Plutarch however only speaks of the wounds received in battle.
page 278 note 2 Compare with the Alexander of the intaglio, the fallen enemy with whom Dexileos is fighting (Collignon Sculpt. Grecque, ii. Fig. 89).