Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · Boston, Ticknor and company · leaf 23
l every day. From him came the maxim,Nidla dies sine linen, — No day without a line; or, No daywithout something accomplished. Apelles also made improvements in the mechanical part of hisart. From what is now positively known, his principal discovery wasthe use of varnish, or that which is now… … STORIES OF AET AND ARTISTS. 5 which was not in his favor, yet when Apelles was driven by a storm toAlexandria, and the sovereign brought into contact with the painter, theirrelations became those of true friendship; and though Apelles enemiesendeavored to ruin him with Ptolemy, their schemes were…
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