Scaife ATLAS

CTS Library / Essays in Portraiture

Essays in Portraiture (12)

urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg039.perseus-eng2:12
Refs {'start': {'reference': '12', 'human_reference': 'Section 12'}}
Ancestors []
Children []
prev
plain textXML
next

LYCINUS Well then, Polystratus, trade me description for description, giving, as the saying goes, measure for measure, or even better than that, since you can. Do a likeness of her soul and display it to me, so that I need not admire her by halves.

POLYSTRATUS It is no light task, my friend, that you are setting me; for it is not the same thing to laud what is manifest to all, and to reveal in words what is invisible. I think that I too shall need fellow-workmen for the portrait, philosophers as well as sculptors and painters, so that I can make my work of art conform to their canons and can exhibit it as modelled in the style of the ancients.

Tokens

LYCINUS 1 w 7
Well 1 w 11
then 1 w 15
Polystratus 1 w 27
trade 1 w 33
me 1 w 35
description 1 w 46
for 1 w 49
description 2 w 60
giving 1 w 67
as 1 w 70
the 2 w 73
saying 1 w 79
goes 1 w 83
measure 1 w 91
for 2 w 94
measure 2 w 101
or 3 w 104
even 1 w 108
better 1 w 114
than 1 w 118
that 1 w 122
since 1 w 128
you 1 w 131
can 1 w 134
Do 1 w 137
a 10 w 138
likeness 1 w 146
of 1 w 148
her 1 w 151
soul 1 w 155
and 1 w 158
display 1 w 165
it 1 w 167
to 1 w 169
me 4 w 171
so 2 w 174
that 2 w 179
I 2 w 180
need 1 w 184
not 1 w 187
admire 1 w 193
her 2 w 196
by 1 w 198
halves 1 w 204
POLYSTRATUS 1 w 216
It 1 w 218
is 2 w 220
no 2 w 222
light 1 w 227
task 1 w 231
my 1 w 234
friend 1 w 240
that 3 w 245
you 2 w 248
are 1 w 251
setting 1 w 258
me 5 w 260
for 3 w 264
it 2 w 266
is 3 w 268
not 2 w 271
the 3 w 274
same 1 w 278
thing 1 w 283
to 2 w 285
laud 1 w 289
what 1 w 293
is 4 w 295
manifest 1 w 303
to 3 w 305
all 1 w 308
and 2 w 312
to 4 w 314
reveal 1 w 320
in 6 w 322
words 1 w 327
what 2 w 331
is 5 w 333
invisible 1 w 342
I 4 w 344
think 1 w 349
that 4 w 353
I 5 w 354
too 1 w 357
shall 1 w 362
need 2 w 366
fellow-workmen 1 w 380
for 4 w 383
the 4 w 386
portrait 1 w 394
philosophers 1 w 407
as 5 w 409
well 1 w 413
as 6 w 415
sculptors 1 w 424
and 3 w 427
painters 1 w 435
so 4 w 438
that 5 w 442
I 6 w 443
can 2 w 446
make 1 w 450
my 2 w 452
work 2 w 456
of 2 w 458
art 1 w 461
conform 1 w 468
to 7 w 470
their 1 w 475
canons 1 w 481
and 4 w 484
can 4 w 487
exhibit 1 w 494
it 5 w 496
as 7 w 498
modelled 1 w 506
in 10 w 508
the 6 w 511
style 1 w 516
of 3 w 518
the 7 w 521
ancients 1 w 529