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                <requestUrn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:M.menodorus_3</requestUrn>
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                <urn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:M.menodorus_3</urn>
                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="M"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="menodorus-bio-3" n="menodorus_3"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Menodo'rus</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Μενόδωρος</surname></persName>), of Athens, a
      sculptor, who made for the Thespians a copy of the celebrated statue of Eros by Praxiteles,
      which originally stood at Thespiae, but was removed to Rome by the emperor Caligula. (<bibl n="Paus. 9.27">Paus. 9.27</bibl>. §§ 3, 4, Bekker.) The date of this artist can
      only be conjectured by supposing that his copy was made about the same time that the original
      was removed, in order to supply its loss. There is nothing to determine whether or no he was
      the same person as the statuary mentioned by Pliny, who made <hi rend="ital">athletas et
       armatos et venatores, sacrificantesque</hi> (<hi rend="ital">H. N.</hi> 34.8. s. 19.34). </p><byline>[<ref target="author.P.S">P.S</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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