We must now, however, make some mention of those artists who acquired fame by the pencil in an inferior style of painting. Among these was Piræicus, inferior to few of the painters in skill. I am not sure that he did not do injustice to himself by the choice of his subjects,[2072] seeing that, although he adopted an humble walk, he still attained in that walk the highest reputation. His subjects were barbers’ shops, cobblers’ stalls, jackasses, eatables, and the like, and to these he was indebted for his epithet of “Rhyparographos.”[2073] His paintings, however, are exquisitely pleasing, and have sold at higher prices than the very largest works of many masters. On the other hand again, as Varro tells us, a single picture by Serapio covered the whole space of the balustrades,[2074] beneath the Old Shops,[2075] where it was exhibited. This artist was very successful in painting stage-scenery, but was unable to depict the human form. Dionysius,[2076] on the contrary, painted nothing but men, and hence it was that he had the surname of “Anthropographos.”[2077] Callicles[2078] also painted some small pictures, and Calates executed some small works in the comic style. Both of these styles were adopted by Antiphilus;[2079] who painted a very fine Hesione, and a Philip and Alexander with Minerva, now in the School of the Porticos[2080] of Octavia. In the Portico of Philippus,[2081] also, there is a Father Liber[2082] by him; an Alexander when a child; and an Hippolytus alarmed at the Bull, which is rushing upon him:[2083] and in the Portico of Pompeius[2084] we have his Cadmus and Europa. On the other hand, again, he painted a figure in a ridiculous costume, known jocosely as the Gryllus; and hence it is that pictures of this class[2085] are generally known as “Grylli.” Antiphilus was a native of Egypt, and received instruction in the art from Ctesidemus.[2086] It would not be right to pass in silence the painter of the Temple at Ardea,[2087] the more particularly as he was honoured with the citizenship at that place, and with the following inscription in verse upon one of the paintings which he executed there: “These paintings, worthy of this worthy place, Temple of Juno, queen, and wife of Jove, Plautius Marcus,[2088] from Alalia, made. May Ardea now and ever praise him for his skill.” These lines are written in ancient Latin characters.