Lysias
a sculptor of the time of Augustus, for whom he executed a great and highly valued group, representing Apollo and Diana in a fourhorse chariot, which Augustus placed in the chapel erected by him to the memory of his father, Octavius, on the Palatine hill. Pliny says that the group was of one piece of marble; but similar statements of his respecting other groups, which are still extant, the Laocoön for instance, have been disproved by an examination of the works themselves: we may therefore suspect his accuracy in this instance. (Plin. Nat. 36.5. s. 4.10; Meyer, Kunstgeschichte, vol. iii. pp. 38, 39.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.