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Tlepolemus and Hiero
also: Tlepolemo Cornelio pictori, Tlepolemus Cornelius the painter, Tlepolemus et Hiero
Tlepolemus of Cibyra, a Greek artist (wax-modeller) who with his brother Hiero (painter) had been driven from his city for despoiling the temple of Apollo and served Verres as his pair of expert scouts and accomplices; granted Roman citizenship and thereafter known as Cornelii (Verr. 2.4.30; 2.3.69). Type-figures of the Cornelii of Sulla's enfranchisement.
Reading notes
- Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book IV §30 Tlepolemus and Hiero
Brothers from Cibyra in Phrygia, fugitives from charges of plundering their own city's Apolline temple, taken by Verres into his service as art-experts. "Like hunting-dogs they smelled out and tracked everything": the standing image of Verres's plundering apparatus.