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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.