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could not Lysippus, with the same bronze, the same tempering, the same graver, water, and all else, make a hundred Alexanders of the same kind?

Hypothetical set of identical bronze statues of Alexander the Great, used as a thought experiment about indistinguishability.

could not Lysippus, with the same bronze, the same tempering, the same graver, water, and all else, make a hundred Alexanders of the same kind?

Bronze honorific statues in Rhodes that are reused by removing old names and engraving new ones rather than commissioning new works.

Perhaps, then, someone will say that the statues are the city's.

for the magistrate points out whichever he pleases of these dedicated statues;

By Zeus, then, the things one obtains from a private man through the city cannot possibly be taken from him;