Asinius Pollio, a man of a warm and ardent temperament, was determined that the buildings which he erected as memorials of himself should be made as attractive as possible; for here we see groups representing, Nymphs carried off by Centaurs, a work of Arcesilas:[2438] the Thespiades,[2439] by Cleomenes:[2440] Oceanus and Jupiter, by Heniochus:[2441] the Appiades,[2442] by Stephanus:[2443] Hermerotes,[2444] by Tauriscus, not the chaser in silver, already[2445] mentioned, but a native of Tralles:[2446] a Jupiter Hospitalis[2447] by Papylus, a pupil of Praxiteles: Zethus and Amphion, with Dirce, the Bull,[2448] and the halter, all sculptured from a single block of marble, the work of Apollonius and Tauriscus, and brought to Rome from Rhodes. These two artists made it a sort of rivalry as to their parentage, for they declared that, although Apollodorus was their natural progenitor, Menecrates[2449] would appear to have been their father. In the same place, too, there is a Father Liber,[2450] by Eutychides,[2451] highly praised. Near the Portico of Octavia, there is an Apollo, by Philiscus[2452] of Rhodes, placed in the Temple of that God; a Latona and Diana also; the Nine Muses; and another Apollo, without drapery. The Apollo holding the Lyre, in the same temple, was executed by Timarchides.[2453] In the Temple of Juno, within the Porticos of Octavia, there is a figure of that goddess, executed by Dionysius,[2454] and another by Polycles,[2455] as also other statues by Praxiteles.[2456] This Polycles, too, in conjunction with Dionysius,[2457] the son of Timarchides, made the statue of Jupiter, which is to be seen in the adjoining temple.[2458] The figures of Pan and Olympus Wrestling, in the same place, are by Heliodorus;[2459] and they are considered to be the next finest group[2460] of this nature in all the world. The same artist also executed a Venus at the Bath, and Polycharmus another Venus, in an erect[2461] posture. By the honourable place which the work of Lysias occupies, we may see in what high esteem it was held by the late Emperor Augustus, who consecrated it in honour of his father Octavius, in the Palatium, placing it on an arch within a small temple, adorned with columns: it is the figure of a four-horse chariot, with an Apollo and Diana, all sculptured from a single block. I find it stated, also, that the Apollo by Calamis, the chaser already[2462] mentioned, the Pugilists by Dercylides, and the statue of Callisthenes the historian, by Amphistratus,[2463] all of them now in the Gardens of Servilius, are works highly esteemed.