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STALLIUS, C. and M

brothers, were Roman architects, who were employed, in conjunction with another architect named Menalippus, to rebuild the Odeion of Pericles at Athens, after it was burnt down by Aristion, in the Mithridatic War. Ol. 173. 3, B. C. 86. (Appian, Mithridat. 38.) The new edifice was erected at the cost of Ariobarzanes II. Philopator, king of Cappadocia, between B. C. 65 and B. C. 52. (Vitrav. 5.9.1.) The names of the artists are preserved by an Attic inscription on the base of a statue which they erected in honour of their patron, Ariobarzanes. (Bockh, C. I. No. 357, vol. i. p. 429; R. Rochette, Lethe à M. Schorn, p. 407. 2d ed.)

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