Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers. A complete translation of the Fragments in Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker by Kathleen Freeman. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press [1948] This text is in the public domain in the US because its copyright was not renewed in a timely fashion as required by law at the time. The chapters are numbered as in the Fifth Edition of Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. The numbers in brackets are those of the Fourth Edition.
Polycleitus of Argos was active during the latter half of the fifth century B.C.
He wrote a treatise called Canon, on aesthetics.
1. The most difficult stage of the work is when the artists’ clay is within a nail's breadth 1 (of completion?)
2. The right result comes gradually through many numbers.
Footnotes
72:1 Proverbial expression, the meaning of which is uncertain.