He also wrote a Latin Odyssey, and some hymns, and died probably about 221 B.C.
[3] C.Fabius, surnamed Pictor, painted the temple of Salus, which the dictator C.Junius Brutus Bubulus dedicated 302 B.C.The temple was destroyed by fire in the reign of Claudius.

The painting is highly praised by Dionysius, xvi.

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[4] For an account of the ancient Greek philosophers, see the sketch at the end of the Disputations.
[5] Isocrates was born at Athens 436 B.C.He was a pupil of Gorgias, Prodicus, and Socrates.

He opened a school of rhetoric, at Athens, with great success.

He died by his own hand at the age of ninety-eight.
[6] So Horace joins these two classes as inventors of all kinds of improbable fictions: Pictoribus atque poetis Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas .-- A.