LEOBSCHUTZ (Bohemian Lubczyce)  , a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Silesia, on the Zinna, about 20 M. to the N.W. of Ratibor by rail . Pop . (1905) 12,700 . It has a large trade in wool, flax and grain, its markets for these commodities being very numerously attended . The principal industries are malting, carriage-building, wool-spinning and glass-making . The town contains three Roman Catholic churches, a Protestant church, a synagogue, a new town-hall and a gymnasium . Leobschfita existed in the loth century, and from 1524 to 1623 was the capital of the principality of Jagerndorf . See F . Troska, Geschichte der Stadt Leobschatz (Leobschiitz,1892) . LEOCHARES, a Greek sculptor who worked with Scopas on the Mausoleum about 350 B.C . He executed statues of the family of Philip of Macedon, in gold and ivory, which were set up by that king in the Philippeum at Olympia . He also with Lysippus made a group in bronze at Delphi representing a lion-hunt of Alexander .

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base with an inscription was recently found . We hear of other statues by Leochares of Zeus, Apollo and Ares . The statuette in the Vatican, representing Ganymede being carried away by an eagle, though considerably restored and poor in execution, so closely corresponds with Pliny's description of a group by Leochares that we are justified in considering it a copy of that group, especially as the Vatican statue shows all the characteristics of Attic 4th-century art . Pliny (N.H . 34 . 79) writes: "Leochares made a group of an eagle aware whom it is carrying off in Ganymede and to whom it is bearing him; holding the boy delicately in its claws, with his garment between." (For engraving see GREEK ART, Plate I. fig . 53.) The tree stem is skilfully used as a support; and the upward strain of the group is ably rendered . The close likeness both in head and pose between the Ganymede and the well-known Apollo Belvidere has caused some modern archaeologists to assign the latter also to Leochares . With somewhat more confidence we may regard the fine statue of Alexander the Great at Munich as a copy of his gold and ivory portrait at Olympia . (P .