Julian, Letters — 67. To George, a Revenue Official
“ Yet the marvellous skill of the workmanship is so lavished on every detail that Alexander at one and the same time strikes his quarry and intimidates the spectator, scaring him by his whole bearing, while the horse, reared on the very tips of his hoofs, is about to take a step and leave the pedestal, and by creating the illusion of vigorous action is endowed with movement by the artist's skill. ”
Julian, Letters — 67. To George, a Revenue Official
“ But if even from me you require some of what you call "friendly smoke," [6] I shall not begrudge it. Surely the mouse who saved the lion in the fable [7] is proof enough that something useful may come even from one's inferiors.Footnotes ↑ Geffcken and Cumont reject this letter.↑ Odyssey 16. 23.↑ The ascription to Pheidias the sculptor of works in the 'microtechnique' described here, is sometimes due to the confusion, in the Roman period, of the fifth century Pheidias with a gem-cutter of the same name who lived in the third century B.C. In the Jahrbuch d.k.d. Arch. ”
