Latin Texts & Translations

The next most esteemed brass was the Æginetan; the island itself being rendered famous for its brass—not indeed that the metal was produced there, but because the annealing of the Æginetan manufactories was so excellent. A brazen Ox, which was taken from this is and, now stands in the Forum Bearium ^[Note] at Rome. This is a specimen of the Æginetan metal, as the Jupiter in the Temple of Jupiter

Tonans, in the Capitol, is of the Delian. Myron ^[Note] used the former metal and Polycletus ^[Note] the latter; they were contemporaries and fellow-pupils, but there was great rivalry between them as to their materials.