Passage 1.20.1
ἔστι δὲ ὁδὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ πρυταν ε ίου καλουμένη Τρίποδες· ἀφʼ οὗ καλοῦσι τὸ χωρίον, ναοὶ ὅσον ἐς τοῦτο μεγάλοι, καί σφισιν ἐφεστήκασι τρίποδες χαλκοῖ μέν, μνήμης δὲ ἄξια μάλιστα περιέχοντες εἰργασμένα. σάτυρος γάρ ἐστιν, ἐφʼ ᾧ Πραξιτέλην λέγεται φρονῆσαι μέγα· καί ποτε Φρύνης αἰτούσης, ὅ τι οἱ κάλλιστον εἴη τῶν ἔργων, ὁμολογεῖν μέν φασιν οἷα ἐραστὴν διδόναι μὲν , κατειπεῖν δʼ οὐκ ἐθέλειν ὅ τι κάλλιστον αὐτῷ οἱ φαίνοιτο. ἐσδραμὼν οὖν οἰκέτης Φρύνης ἔφασκεν οἴχεσθαι Πραξιτέλει τὸ πολὺ τῶν ἔργων πυρὸς ἐσπεσόντος ἐς τὸ οἴκημα, οὐ μὲν οὖν πάντα γε ἀφανισθῆναι·
There is a street running from the Prytaneion, known as the "Street of the Tripods." The place is named after it, and temples stand there which, although not especially large, support bronze tripods containing reliefs particularly worthy of remembrance. Among them is a satyr, of which Praxiteles is said to have held a very high opinion. Once, when Phryne asked him which of his own creations he thought most beautiful, they say that, as her lover, he agreed to give it to her, yet was unwilling to state directly which seemed best to him. So a servant of Phryne ran in and announced to Praxiteles that most of his works had been destroyed by fire which had broken out at his workshop—though not all of his works had perished.