Lucian, Pro imaginibus, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 11

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κἀκεῖνο δὲ εἰπεῖν σοι ἐνετείλατο. ἀκούω, ἔφη, πολλῶν λεγόντων — εἰ δὲ ἀληθές, ὑμεῖς οἱ ἄνδρες ἴστε — μηδʼ Ὀλυμπίασιν ἐξεῖναι τοῖς νικῶσι μείζους τῶν σωμάτων ἀνεστάναι τοὺς ἀνδριάντας, ἀλλὰ ἐπιμελεῖσθαι τοὺς Ἑλλανοδίκας ὅπως μηδὲ εἷς ὑπερβάληται τὴν ἀλήθειαν, καὶ τὴν ἐξέτασιν τῶν ἀνδριάντων ἀκριβεστέραν γίγνεσθαι τῆς τῶν ἀθλητῶν ἐγκρίσεως. ὥστε ὅρα, ἔφη, μὴ αἰτίαν λάβωμεν ψεύδεσθαι ἐν τῷ μέτρῳ, κᾆτα ἡμῶν ἀνατρέψωσιν οἱ Ἑλλανοδίκαι τὴν εἰκόνα.

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Ὑπὲρ τῶν Εἰκόνων (Greek) (Lucian, Vol. 4. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1925 (printing).)

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Essays in Portraiture Defended Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 4. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1925 (printing).) — 11 focus

[11] Furthermore, she enjoined it upon me to tell you this. “I hear many say (whether it is true or not, you men know¹) that even at the Olympic games the victors are not allowed to set up statues greater than life-size, but the Hellanodicae take care that not one of them shall exceed the truth, and the scrutiny of the statues is more strict than the examination of the athletes. So be on your guard for fear we incur the imputation of falsifying in the matter of height, and then the Hellanodicae overturn our statue.”

Defence of the ‘portrait-study’ Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 3. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 11 focus

[11] I often hear, she said,—but whether it is true, you men know better than I—that at Olympia the victors are not allowed to have their statues set up larger than life; the Stewards see to it that no one transgresses this rule, examining the statues even more scrupulously than they did the competitor's qualification. Take care that we do not get convicted of false proportions, and find our statue thrown down by the Stewards.

Lucian Pro imaginibus 11

ed. Austin Morris Harmon

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