While the humble cock is being sacrificed, they turn, like the women in the Ion of Euripides, to admire the works of art; among them a small boy strangling a vulpanser – doubtless the work of Boethus that we know and a sacrificial procession by Apelles, "the Ephesian," of whom we have an interesting piece of contemporary eulogy.
Walter George Headlam MA, DLitt, (15 February 1866–20 June 1908) was a British classical scholar and poet, perhaps best remembered for his work on the Mimes of Herodas.
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