We find named as painters, one Theodotus who, as Naevius scoffingly said, -Sedens in cella circumtectus tegetibus Lares ludentis peni pinxit bubulo;- Marcus Pacuvius of Brundisium, who painted in the temple of Hercules in the Forum Boariumthe same who, when more advanced in life, made himself a name as an editor of Greek tragedies; and

Br. 202, Mendotum pinxit Diodorus, et exit imago, Praeter Menodotura, nullius absimilis.