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From: "Terrence Lockyer" <lockyert@mweb.co.za>
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Subject: Omnia mutantur, nihil interit
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, James M. Pfundstein wrote

: the Reuters story I paste below my signature reminded
: me strongly of (pseudo-)Lucian _Erotes_ 5ff, where a
: young man attempts to have relations with the statue of
: Aphrodite by Praxiteles at Cnidus.

The same story is reported earlier than Lucian in Pliny the Elder's notice
of Praxiteles at NH 36.20-2 (specifically, 36.21).


Terrence Lockyer
Johannesburg, South Africa

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