Phidias quoque Homeri versibus egregio dicto allusit: simulacro enim Iovis Olympii perfecto, quo nullum praestantius aut admirabilius humanae fabrica<ver>e manus, interrogatus ab amico quonam mentem suam dirigens vultum Iovis propemodum ex ipso caelo petitum eboris liniamentis esset amplexus, illis se versibus quasi magistro usum respondit:                ,    .
Phidias too played with Homers verses in an excellent saying. When he had finished his image of Olympian Zeus, than which nothing more outstanding and admirable has been fabricated by human hands, a friend asked him to what he had directed his mind so as to embrace in lineaments of ivory the countenance of Jove taken one might almost say from heaven itself. He replied that he had used these verses as his instructor:  Thus, and with dark brows nodded Cronos son. From his immortal head the royal locks Streamed down ambrosial; great Olympus shook.
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