text:  We find from Plutarch that when Aratus was exerting himself to gain for the Achaean league the powerful alliance of Ptolemy Euergetes he found no means so effectual in conciliating the good-will of the monarch as the procuring for him some of the master-pieces of Pamphilus[7] and Melanthius the most renowned of the famous school of Sicyon; and the knowledge of the high estimation in which the arts were held under the Egyptian kings gives an additional value to the accounts given by Tatius of these treasures of a past age his notices of which are the latest in point of time which have come down to us from an eyewitness