8. The panel-picture mentioned by Pliny as being at Rome in his time, shows that Polygnotus sometimes painted single figures, but Pliny's description of the work is perfectly unintelligible, "in qua dubitatur ascendentem cum clypco pinxerit, an descendentem." (Plin. Nat. 35.9. s. 35.)
[P.S]A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890