Having now mentioned the principal painters in either branch,[2139] I must not pass in silence those who occupy the next rank. Aristoclides decorated the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Antiphilus[2140] is highly praised for his picture of a Boy blowing a Fire, which illumines an apartment handsomely furnished, and throws a light[2141] upon the features of the youth; a Spinning-room, with women plying their respective tasks; and a King Ptolemæus hunting. But his most famous picture is his Satyr, clad in a panther’s skin, and known as the “Aposcopeuon.”[2142] Aristophon[2143] has painted an Ancæus[2144] wounded by the Boar, with Astypale, the sharer of his grief; and a picture with numerous figures, representing Priam, Helena, Credulity, Ulysses, Deiphobus, and Guile.[2145] Androbius has painted a Scyllus[2146] cutting away the anchors of the Persian fleet: and Artemon a Danaë, with Robbers in admiration; a Queen Stratonice;[2147] and a Hercules and Deianira. But the finest of all this artist’s works are those now in the buildings of Octavia; a Hercules ascending to heaven, with the sanction of the gods, from his funeral pile upon Mount Œta in Doris; and the story of Laomedon and his bargain[2148] with Hercules and Neptune. Alcimachus has painted Dioxippus,[2149] who was victorious in the pancratium at Olympia, without raising the dust; a victory known to the Greeks as being gained “aconiti.”[2150] Cœnus painted pedigrees.[2151] Ctesilochus, a pupil[2152] of Apelles, was famous for a burlesque picture of his representing Jupiter in labour with Bacchus,[2153] with a mitra[2154] on his head, and crying like a woman in the midst of the goddesses, who are acting as midwives. Cleon distinguished himself by his Cadmus; and Ctesidemus, by his Capture of Œchalia[2155] and his Laodamia. Ctesicles became notorious for the insult which he offered to Queen Stratonice;[2156] for, upon failing to meet with an honourable reception from her, he painted her, romping with a fisherman, for whom, according to common report, she had conceived an ardent affection. After exhibiting this picture in the harbour at Ephesus, he at once set sail and escaped: the queen, however, would not allow of its removal, the likenesses of the two figures being so admirably expressed. Cratinus,[2157] the comic writer, painted at Athens, in the Pompeion[2158] there.