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1. A statuary, whom Pliny mentions among those who made athletas et armatos
et venatores sacrificantesque (H. N. 34.8. s. 19.34). There is a
fragment of a Hermes in the Villa Mattei, bearing the mutilated inscription,
ΠΟΛΓΚΡ...........
on which slight basis Visconti rests the hypothesis that Polycrates was an Athenian artist,
contemporary with Timotheus, and that the Hermes in question was a copy of a bronze statue of
Timotheus by Polycrates. A simpler hypothesis would be to complete the inscription thus,
Monum. Mattei vol. iii. n. 118; Visconti, Icon.
Grecque, vol. i. p. 150, n.; R. Rochette, Lettre à M.
Schorn, pp. 389-390.)