or STIPAX, of Cyprus, a statuary, to whom Pliny ascribes the execution of a celebrated
statue called Splanchnoptes, because it represented a person roasting the
entrails of the victim at a sacrifice, and blowing the fire with his breath. (H. N. 34.8. 19. s. 21.) According to Pliny, the person represented was a slave of
Pericles, evidently the same as the one of whom he elsewhere relates the story, that he fell
from the summit of the Parthenon, but was healed by the virtue of a herb which Minerva showed
to Pericles in a dream (H. N. 22.17. s. 20), a story which Plutarch tells
of the architect MNESICLES. Among the recent discoveries on the
Acropolis, fragments have been found which Ross supposes to have belonged to the base of the