a highly celebrated scene-painter, who failed, however, in his attempts to depict the human figure. We have no better clue to the time at which he flourished than the following obscure passage in Pliny :--Maeniana, inquit Varro, omnia operiebat Serapionis tabula sub Veteribus (Plin. Nat. 35.10. s. 37). The invention of scenepainting is ascribed to Sophocles. (Aristot. Poet. 4.)