non usquam clarior illo gloria picturae saeclo; non aera iuvabat ascire ex Ephyre; fulvo certaverit auro vestis, spirantes referens subtemine vultus, quae radio caelat Babylon, vel murice picto laeta Tyros, quaeque Attalicis variata per artem aulaeis scribuntur acu aut Memphitide tela.
Nowhere in that age was the art of the painter more splendid; Syracuse had no desire to import bronzes from Corinthd; and her tapestry, wrought with ruddy gold and reproducing in the woof living likenesses of men, might rival the fabrics wrought by the shuttles of Babylon or by Tyre that prides herself on her embroidered purple; it might match the intricate patterns worked by the needle on the hangings of Attaluse or the woven stuffs of Egypt.
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