 |
| Édouard Manet Plum Brandy ca. 1877 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
 |
| Palma il Giovane St Jerome before 1628 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
-Mus%C3%A9e-des-Beaux-Arts-de-Valenciennes.jpg) |
| Alexandre-Denis-Abel de Pujol Seated Model 1834 drawing (study for painting, Apotheosis of Alexander) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes |
-Metropolitan-Museum-of-Art-New-York.jpg) |
| Pablo Picasso Kneeling Nude 1907-1908 drawing (study for painting, Three Women) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
 |
| Giuseppe Rolli Figure in Clouds ca. 1660 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
 |
| Benedetto Luti Supper at Emmaus ca. 1695 oil on panel Princeton University Art Museum |
 |
| Jacob Matthias Schmutzer Académie ca. 1770-80 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
 |
| Jacob Jordaens Study of Figure in Priestly Vestments ca. 1650 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
-1800-drawing-Kupferstichkabinett-Kunstmuseum-Basel.jpg) |
| Henry Fuseli Figure Study (made at the Royal Academy, London) 1800 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel |
 |
| Anton Kolig Large Kneeling Figure 1922 oil on canvas Leopold Museum, Vienna |
-National-Museum-Warsaw.jpg) |
| Théodore Géricault Académie ca. 1812 oil on canvas (test patch cleaned, lower right corner) National Museum, Warsaw |
-Foreshortened-Figure-lying-among-Rocks-c1640-drawing-Graphische-Sammlung-Albertina-Vienna.jpg) |
| Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) Foreshortened Figure ca. 1640 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
-Kupferstichkabinett-Staatliche-Museen-zu-Berlin.jpg) |
| Federico Barocci Figure Studies ca. 1580-83 drawing (studies for painting, Martyrdom of St Vitalis) Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
 |
| Pompeo Batoni Académie 1768 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
 |
| attributed to Aert de Gelder Model arranging her Hair ca. 1690 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
 |
| Federico Zuccaro Putto ca. 1580 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Overcome by hunger, Rhodanes and his companion lick the honey off themselves, are stricken with diarrhea, and fall as if dead at the side of the road. Worn out from fighting the bees, the soldiers flee; all the same, they pursue Rhodanes and his companion, and, seeing their quarry collapsed, they pass them by, taking them to be truly dead. . . . While Rhodanes and Sinonis are lying collapsed at the side of the road, the soldiers as they are passing follow the custom of their country in throwing shrouds in the form of tunics over what they take to be corpses, and whatever they happen to have, and pieces of meat and bread. In this way the soldiers pass by. The couple made unconscious by the honey wake up with difficulty; Rhodanes is awakened by the sound of crows quarreling over the pieces of meat, and he wakes up Sinonis. They get up and travel in the direction opposite to that taken by the soldiers so as to improve their chances of not being recognized as the fugitives. Finding two asses, they mount them and load them with what they retained from the things that the soldiers who supposed that they were dead threw over their bodies. They then turn into an inn, flee from there, and take lodgings at another one around midday.
– Iamblichus, from A Babylonian Story, written in Greek, 2nd century AD. A summary of the book was composed (also in Greek) in the 9th century by Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople. Except for fragments, the original text by Iamblichus was subsequently lost, but the summary by Photius has survived. This was translated into English by Gerald N. Sandy (1989).