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CEPHISODOTUS, the name of a near relative, and of the son of, Praxiteles, both sculptors like himself. The former must have flourished about 400 B.c. A noted work of his was Peace bearing the infant Wealth, of which a copy exists at Munich. Peace is a Madonna-like figure of a somewhat conservative type. He made certain statues for the city of Megalopolis, founded in 37o B.C. (See H. Stuart Jones, Ancient Writers on Greek Sculp ture § 182-185 [1895].) Of the work of the younger Cephisodotus we have no remains; he flourished in the latter part of the 4th century B.C., and was noted for portraits of Menander, of the orator Lycurgus, and others. (See J. Overbeck, Antike Schri f t quellen, p. 255.)

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