Eng
ITAAIMENOT
ETEPretor, which
Aem i.
Aem i.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
Schorn, p.
149, 2d ed.
;
6, 20, 21, 47–49, xxxiii. 24, 37, xxxiv. 53, comp. Pergamus. )
[P. S. )
xxxv. 41, xxxvii. 55, xxxviii. 44, 45, 54, xxxix. PY'LADES (Nuaddns), a son of Strophius and
40, 54. )
Anaxibia, Cydragora or Astyochea (Paus. ii.
PU'SIO, C. FLAVIUS, is mentioned by Cicero 29. 8 4; Schol. ad Eurip. Orest. 33, 753; Hygin.
(pro Cluent. 56) as one of the Roman equites, Fub. 117. ) He was a friend of Orestes, who was
who opposed the tribune M. Drusus.
received by him in Phocis in a brotherly manner.
PUTON. [PLUTION. )
(Pind. Pyth. xi. 23. ) He afterwards married
PYGMAEUS (Iluyuaios), a being whose length Electra, the sister of Orestes, and became by her
is a Truyur), that is, from the elbow to the hand. the father of Hellanicus, Medon, and Strophius.
(Eustath. ad Ilom. p. 372. ) The Pygmaei, in (Paus. ii. 16. § 5; Orestes, ELECTR A. ) (L. S. )
the plural, is the name of a fabulous nation of PY'LADES, the pantomime dancer in the reign
dwarſs, the Liliputians of antiquity, who, accord- of Augustus, is spoken of under BatuYLLUS.
ing to Homer, had every spring to sustain a war He was banished on one occasion by Augustus,
against the cranes on the banks of Oceanus. (Hom. but afterwards restored to the city (Dion Cass. liv.
Il. ii. 5, &c. ) They were believed to have been 17; Suet. Aug. 45. )
descended from Pygmaeus, a son of Dorus and PY'LADES (Iuládns), the engraver of a beau-
grandson of Epaphus. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Huyuaios. ) tiful gem in the Museum of the King of the
Later writers usually place them near the sources Netherlands, representing an eagle, carrying a
of the Nile, whither the cranes are said to have crown in its beak. It is described by Jonghe
migrated every year to take possession of the fields (Catal. Mus. Batav. p. 167, n. 4), and more mi-
of the pygmies. (Eustath. p. 372 ; Aristot. Hist. nutely by Visconti (Op. Var. vol. ii. p. 162, n.
Animal. viii. 12 ; Strab. i. p. 42, xvii. p. 821. ) 21), who, without assigning any reason for his
The reports of them have been embellished in a opinion, supposes the inscription NrAAAOT to
variety of ways by the ancients. Hecataeus, for denote the owner rather than the artist. It
example, related that they cut down every corn has been engraved by Venuti (Collectan. Antiq.
ear with an axe, for they were conceived to be an Roman. tab. Ixxiv. Rom. 1736, folio), and in the
Agricultural people. When Heracles came into work of the Count de Thoms, pl. xiii. n. 5. (Com-
their country, they climbed with ladders to the pare R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 150, 2nd
edge of his goblet to drink from it; and when they ed. )
(P. S. )
attacked the hero, a whole army of them made an PYLAE-MENES (Ilvraiuévns), a king of the
assault upon his left hand, while two others made Paphlagonians and an ally of Priam in the Trojan
the attack on his right hand. (Philostr. Icon. war. (Hom. I. ii. 85); Strab. xii. pp. 541,
ji. 21. ) Aristotle did not believe that the accounts 543. )
(L. S. )
of the Pygmies were altogether fabulous, but PYLAEʻMENES (Tulaluévns), appears to
thought that they were a tribe in Upper Egypt, have been the name of many kings of Paphla-
who had exceedingly sniall horses, and lived in gonia, so as to have become a kind of hereditary
caves. (Hist. Animal. viii. 14. ) In later times appellation, like that of Ptolemy in Egypt, and
we also hear of northern Pygmies, who lived in Arsaces in Parthia. The only ones concerning
the neighbourhood of Thule ; they are described as whom we have any definite information are the
very shortlived, small, and armed with spears like following ::
needles. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 372. ) Lastly, we 1. A king of Paphlagonia, who in B. C. 131
also have mention of Indian pygmies, who lived assisted the Romans in the war against Aris-
under the earth on the east of the river Ganges, tonicus, the pretender to the throne of Pergamus.
(Ctesias, Ind. ii. pp. 250, 294 ; Philostr. Vit. (Eutrop. iv. 20). At his death the race of the
Apollon. iii. 47; Plin. H. N. vi. 22. ) Various ancient kings of Paphlagonia appears to have
attempts have been made to account for the sin- become extinct, and it was asserted that he had
gular belief in the existence of such a dwarfish by his testament bequeathed his kingdom to Mi-
nation, but it seems to have its origin in the love thridates V. , king of Pontus. (Justin. xxxviii. 5. )
of the marvellous, and the desire to imagine 2. A son of Nicomedes II. , king of Bithynia,
human beings, in different climes and in different who was placed by his father on the throne of
ages, to be either much greater or much smaller Paphlagonia, and made to assume the name of
than ourselves. (Comp. Ov. Fast. vi. 176, Met. Pylaemenes, in order that he might appear to
vi. 90 ; Aelian, Hist. An. xv. 29. ) (L. S. ] belong to the rightful line of the kings of that
PYGMA'LION (Iluzuarlar). 1. A king of country. (Justin. xxxvii. 4. ) He was afterwards
Cyprus and father of Metharme. (Apollod. iii. 14. expelled by Mithridates the Great, in B. C. 90
3. ) He is said to have fallen in love with the (Eutrop. v. 5), and it does not appear that he
ivory image of a maiden which he himself had himself ever recovered his throne : but after the
made, and therefore to have prayed to Aphrodite final overthrow of Mithridates, the sons of Pylae-
to breathe life into it. When the request was menes were reinstated by Pompey in the possession
granted, Pygmalion married his beloved, and be- of some part of their father's dominions with the
came by her the father of Paphus. (Ov. Met. x. title of king. (Strab. xii. p. 541. )
243, &c. )
There are extant coins bearing the titles BA-
2. A son of Belus and brother of Dido. (Virg.
Eng ITAAIMENOT ETEPretor, which
Aem i. 347 ; Ov. Fust. iii. 574. ) [L. S. ) may probably be ascribed to one of the two pre-
## p. 607 (#623) ############################################
PYREICUS.
607
PYROMACHIUS.
EYEN ETSY
NVAAIMENY
BA EMELL
COIN OP PYLAEMENES.
oeding kings, but it is impossible to say to which is difficult to explain it as referring to Parrhasins
thoy belong. (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. 394. ) (E. H. B. ] It is, however, uncertain which is right. Hertzberg
keeps to the common reading. (See Sillig, Cal.
Art. s. 0. ; and Hertzberg, Coinment. ad loc. ) (P. S. ]
PYRES (Núpns), of Miletus, a writer of that
lascivious species of poetry denominated Tonic, and
in which Sotades of Maroneia, who lived after
Pyres, was principally conspicuous. As Sotades
lived in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus, Pyres
must have lived previous to B. c. 285. (Athen.
xiv. p. 620, c. ) Suidas (s. v. Ewrádns) erroneously
calls him Núppos.
(W. M. G. )
PYRGENSIS, M. POSTU'MIUS, one of the
farmers of the public taxes in the second Punic
PYLAS (núas), a son of Cteson, and king of war, was brought to trial in B. c. 212, for his pecu-
Megara, who, after having slain Bias, his own
lations and fraud ; and was condemned by the
father's brother, founded the town of Pylos in people, though not without great opposition, as he
Peloponnesus, and gave Megara to Pandion who was supported by the rest of the publicani and one
had married his daughter Pylia, and accordingly of the tribunes. Postumius weni into exile before
was his son-in-law. (Apollod. iii, 15. 95; Paus. bis condemnation. (Liv. xxv. 3, 4. )
i. 39. § 6, where he is called Pylos, and vi. 22. PY'RGION (flupylwr), wrote a work on the
$ 3, where he is called Pylon. ) (L. S. ]
laws and institutions of the Cretans, of which the
PYRAECHMES (Ilupaixurs), an ally of the third book is quoted by Athenaeus (iv. p. 143, e. ).
Trojans and commander of the Paeonians, was slain
PYRGOTELES (Tlupyotéins), one of the
by Patroclus. (Hom. Il. ii. 848, xvi. 287 ; Dict. most celebrated gem-engravers of ancient Greece,
Cret. iii. 4; comp. Paus. v. 4. & 2; Strab. viii. lived in the latter half of the fourth century B. C.
p. 357. )
[L S. ] The esteem in which he was held may be inferred
PYRAMUS. [THISBE. ]
from that edict of Alexander, which placed him on
PYRANDER (Túpavoos), wrote a work on
a level with Apelles and Lysippus, by naming him
the history of the Peloponnesus. (Plut. Parall. as the only artist who was permitted to engrave
Min. c. 37 ; Schol. ad Lycophr. 1439. )
seal-rings for the king. (Plin. H. N. vii. 37. s. 38,
PYREICUS, a Greek painter, who probably xxxvii. 1. s. 4. ) Unfortunately, however, beyond
lived about or soon after the time of Alexander the this one fact, every thing else respecting the artist is
Great, since Pliny mentions him immediately after involved in that obscurity, to which the neglect of
the great painters of that age, but as an artist of a ancient writers and the impudence of ancient as
totally different style. He devoted himself entirely well as modern forgers have conspired to doom one
to the production of small pictures of low and mean of the most interesting branches of Greek art.
subjects ; " tonstrinas sutrinasque pinxit et asellos et Several works are extant under the name of Pyr-
obsonia el similia,” says Pliny ; where we take the goteles, but of these the best known have been
first two words to mean, not that he decorated the demonstrated by Winckelmann to be forgeries,
walls of the barbers' and shoemakers' shops with and very few of the others have any pretensions to
his pictures, but that he made pictures of them. It authenticity. For the full discussion of the ge-
may also be taken for granted that these were nuineness or spuriousness of the several gems
treated in a quaint, or even a grotesque manner.
ascribed to Pyrgoteles, the reader is referred to
His paintings were a source of great delight (con- Winckelmann (Werke, rol. vi. pp. 107, &c. ), and
summatae voluplatis), and commanded higher prices Raoul-Rochette (Lettre à M. Schorn, pp. 150–152,
than the greatest works of many painters. (Plin. 2d ed. ).
[P. S. ]
H. N. xxxv. 10. s. 37. )
PYRILAMPES (Ilupınáunns), a statuary of
The ancients gave a name to this kind of paint- Messene, of whom nothing more is known than
ing, respecting the true form of which there is a that he was the maker of the statnes of three
difference of opinion. Pliny says that Pyreicus Olympic victors, namely, Pyrilampes of Ephesus,
was called, on account of the subjects of his pictures, Xenon of Lepreon, and Asamon. (Paus. vi. 3. & 5.
Rhyparographos (the reading of all the MSS. ), in- 8. 12, 15. § 1, 16. § 4. 6. 5. )
(P. S. )
stead of which Salmasius proposed to read Rhopo-
PYRIPHLE'GETHON (Ilvp. pleyéowy), flam-
graphos, as better suited to the sense, and Welckering with fire, is the name of one of the rivers in
adopts the correction (ad Philostr. 396), while the lower world. (Hom. Od. x. 513; Strab. v.
Sillig and others are satisfied with the former read- p. 244. )
(L. S. ]
ing. The difference is hardly important enough to
PYROʻMACHUS, artists. This name has
be discussed here. (See Sillig, Cat. Artif. s. v. ;
been the occasion of much confusion, owing to its
Döderlein, Lat. Synon. vol. i. p. 38; and the occurring in four different forms, namely, Phyro-
Greek Lexicons, s. vv. )
machus, Phylomachus, Philomachus, and Pyro-
Propertius (iii. 9. 12. s. 7. 12, machus, and owing also to the fact that there were
Burmann) in which Burmann reads, on the autho- two artists, who bore one or other of these three
Pyreicus parva vindicat arte locum,
1. We have already noticed the Athenian
sculptor, who executed the bas-reliefs on the frieze
where the great majority of the MSS. have Par of the temple of Athena Polias, about OL 91, B. C.
Thasius, a reading which would easily be inserted 415, and the true form of whose name was Phy-
by a transcriber ignorant of the less known name romachus
. [PHSROMACH US. ] This artist is evi-
of Pyreicus. In connection with Pyreicus the dently the same whom Pliny mentions, in his list
phrase parva arte has a clear meaning; whereas it of statuaries, as the maker of a group representing
There is a line
rity of two MSS. ,-
names.
!
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608
PYROMACHUS.
PYRRHON.
n.
1
1
Alcibiades driving a four-horse chariot (Pyror example, that in the Florentine Gallery, No. 27.
machi quudriga regitur ab Alcibiade, Plin. H. N. (Müller, Arch d. Kunst, $$ 157", 394º. )
xxxiv. 8. s. 19. & 20: the reading of all the MSS.
6, 20, 21, 47–49, xxxiii. 24, 37, xxxiv. 53, comp. Pergamus. )
[P. S. )
xxxv. 41, xxxvii. 55, xxxviii. 44, 45, 54, xxxix. PY'LADES (Nuaddns), a son of Strophius and
40, 54. )
Anaxibia, Cydragora or Astyochea (Paus. ii.
PU'SIO, C. FLAVIUS, is mentioned by Cicero 29. 8 4; Schol. ad Eurip. Orest. 33, 753; Hygin.
(pro Cluent. 56) as one of the Roman equites, Fub. 117. ) He was a friend of Orestes, who was
who opposed the tribune M. Drusus.
received by him in Phocis in a brotherly manner.
PUTON. [PLUTION. )
(Pind. Pyth. xi. 23. ) He afterwards married
PYGMAEUS (Iluyuaios), a being whose length Electra, the sister of Orestes, and became by her
is a Truyur), that is, from the elbow to the hand. the father of Hellanicus, Medon, and Strophius.
(Eustath. ad Ilom. p. 372. ) The Pygmaei, in (Paus. ii. 16. § 5; Orestes, ELECTR A. ) (L. S. )
the plural, is the name of a fabulous nation of PY'LADES, the pantomime dancer in the reign
dwarſs, the Liliputians of antiquity, who, accord- of Augustus, is spoken of under BatuYLLUS.
ing to Homer, had every spring to sustain a war He was banished on one occasion by Augustus,
against the cranes on the banks of Oceanus. (Hom. but afterwards restored to the city (Dion Cass. liv.
Il. ii. 5, &c. ) They were believed to have been 17; Suet. Aug. 45. )
descended from Pygmaeus, a son of Dorus and PY'LADES (Iuládns), the engraver of a beau-
grandson of Epaphus. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Huyuaios. ) tiful gem in the Museum of the King of the
Later writers usually place them near the sources Netherlands, representing an eagle, carrying a
of the Nile, whither the cranes are said to have crown in its beak. It is described by Jonghe
migrated every year to take possession of the fields (Catal. Mus. Batav. p. 167, n. 4), and more mi-
of the pygmies. (Eustath. p. 372 ; Aristot. Hist. nutely by Visconti (Op. Var. vol. ii. p. 162, n.
Animal. viii. 12 ; Strab. i. p. 42, xvii. p. 821. ) 21), who, without assigning any reason for his
The reports of them have been embellished in a opinion, supposes the inscription NrAAAOT to
variety of ways by the ancients. Hecataeus, for denote the owner rather than the artist. It
example, related that they cut down every corn has been engraved by Venuti (Collectan. Antiq.
ear with an axe, for they were conceived to be an Roman. tab. Ixxiv. Rom. 1736, folio), and in the
Agricultural people. When Heracles came into work of the Count de Thoms, pl. xiii. n. 5. (Com-
their country, they climbed with ladders to the pare R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 150, 2nd
edge of his goblet to drink from it; and when they ed. )
(P. S. )
attacked the hero, a whole army of them made an PYLAE-MENES (Ilvraiuévns), a king of the
assault upon his left hand, while two others made Paphlagonians and an ally of Priam in the Trojan
the attack on his right hand. (Philostr. Icon. war. (Hom. I. ii. 85); Strab. xii. pp. 541,
ji. 21. ) Aristotle did not believe that the accounts 543. )
(L. S. )
of the Pygmies were altogether fabulous, but PYLAEʻMENES (Tulaluévns), appears to
thought that they were a tribe in Upper Egypt, have been the name of many kings of Paphla-
who had exceedingly sniall horses, and lived in gonia, so as to have become a kind of hereditary
caves. (Hist. Animal. viii. 14. ) In later times appellation, like that of Ptolemy in Egypt, and
we also hear of northern Pygmies, who lived in Arsaces in Parthia. The only ones concerning
the neighbourhood of Thule ; they are described as whom we have any definite information are the
very shortlived, small, and armed with spears like following ::
needles. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 372. ) Lastly, we 1. A king of Paphlagonia, who in B. C. 131
also have mention of Indian pygmies, who lived assisted the Romans in the war against Aris-
under the earth on the east of the river Ganges, tonicus, the pretender to the throne of Pergamus.
(Ctesias, Ind. ii. pp. 250, 294 ; Philostr. Vit. (Eutrop. iv. 20). At his death the race of the
Apollon. iii. 47; Plin. H. N. vi. 22. ) Various ancient kings of Paphlagonia appears to have
attempts have been made to account for the sin- become extinct, and it was asserted that he had
gular belief in the existence of such a dwarfish by his testament bequeathed his kingdom to Mi-
nation, but it seems to have its origin in the love thridates V. , king of Pontus. (Justin. xxxviii. 5. )
of the marvellous, and the desire to imagine 2. A son of Nicomedes II. , king of Bithynia,
human beings, in different climes and in different who was placed by his father on the throne of
ages, to be either much greater or much smaller Paphlagonia, and made to assume the name of
than ourselves. (Comp. Ov. Fast. vi. 176, Met. Pylaemenes, in order that he might appear to
vi. 90 ; Aelian, Hist. An. xv. 29. ) (L. S. ] belong to the rightful line of the kings of that
PYGMA'LION (Iluzuarlar). 1. A king of country. (Justin. xxxvii. 4. ) He was afterwards
Cyprus and father of Metharme. (Apollod. iii. 14. expelled by Mithridates the Great, in B. C. 90
3. ) He is said to have fallen in love with the (Eutrop. v. 5), and it does not appear that he
ivory image of a maiden which he himself had himself ever recovered his throne : but after the
made, and therefore to have prayed to Aphrodite final overthrow of Mithridates, the sons of Pylae-
to breathe life into it. When the request was menes were reinstated by Pompey in the possession
granted, Pygmalion married his beloved, and be- of some part of their father's dominions with the
came by her the father of Paphus. (Ov. Met. x. title of king. (Strab. xii. p. 541. )
243, &c. )
There are extant coins bearing the titles BA-
2. A son of Belus and brother of Dido. (Virg.
Eng ITAAIMENOT ETEPretor, which
Aem i. 347 ; Ov. Fust. iii. 574. ) [L. S. ) may probably be ascribed to one of the two pre-
## p. 607 (#623) ############################################
PYREICUS.
607
PYROMACHIUS.
EYEN ETSY
NVAAIMENY
BA EMELL
COIN OP PYLAEMENES.
oeding kings, but it is impossible to say to which is difficult to explain it as referring to Parrhasins
thoy belong. (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. 394. ) (E. H. B. ] It is, however, uncertain which is right. Hertzberg
keeps to the common reading. (See Sillig, Cal.
Art. s. 0. ; and Hertzberg, Coinment. ad loc. ) (P. S. ]
PYRES (Núpns), of Miletus, a writer of that
lascivious species of poetry denominated Tonic, and
in which Sotades of Maroneia, who lived after
Pyres, was principally conspicuous. As Sotades
lived in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus, Pyres
must have lived previous to B. c. 285. (Athen.
xiv. p. 620, c. ) Suidas (s. v. Ewrádns) erroneously
calls him Núppos.
(W. M. G. )
PYRGENSIS, M. POSTU'MIUS, one of the
farmers of the public taxes in the second Punic
PYLAS (núas), a son of Cteson, and king of war, was brought to trial in B. c. 212, for his pecu-
Megara, who, after having slain Bias, his own
lations and fraud ; and was condemned by the
father's brother, founded the town of Pylos in people, though not without great opposition, as he
Peloponnesus, and gave Megara to Pandion who was supported by the rest of the publicani and one
had married his daughter Pylia, and accordingly of the tribunes. Postumius weni into exile before
was his son-in-law. (Apollod. iii, 15. 95; Paus. bis condemnation. (Liv. xxv. 3, 4. )
i. 39. § 6, where he is called Pylos, and vi. 22. PY'RGION (flupylwr), wrote a work on the
$ 3, where he is called Pylon. ) (L. S. ]
laws and institutions of the Cretans, of which the
PYRAECHMES (Ilupaixurs), an ally of the third book is quoted by Athenaeus (iv. p. 143, e. ).
Trojans and commander of the Paeonians, was slain
PYRGOTELES (Tlupyotéins), one of the
by Patroclus. (Hom. Il. ii. 848, xvi. 287 ; Dict. most celebrated gem-engravers of ancient Greece,
Cret. iii. 4; comp. Paus. v. 4. & 2; Strab. viii. lived in the latter half of the fourth century B. C.
p. 357. )
[L S. ] The esteem in which he was held may be inferred
PYRAMUS. [THISBE. ]
from that edict of Alexander, which placed him on
PYRANDER (Túpavoos), wrote a work on
a level with Apelles and Lysippus, by naming him
the history of the Peloponnesus. (Plut. Parall. as the only artist who was permitted to engrave
Min. c. 37 ; Schol. ad Lycophr. 1439. )
seal-rings for the king. (Plin. H. N. vii. 37. s. 38,
PYREICUS, a Greek painter, who probably xxxvii. 1. s. 4. ) Unfortunately, however, beyond
lived about or soon after the time of Alexander the this one fact, every thing else respecting the artist is
Great, since Pliny mentions him immediately after involved in that obscurity, to which the neglect of
the great painters of that age, but as an artist of a ancient writers and the impudence of ancient as
totally different style. He devoted himself entirely well as modern forgers have conspired to doom one
to the production of small pictures of low and mean of the most interesting branches of Greek art.
subjects ; " tonstrinas sutrinasque pinxit et asellos et Several works are extant under the name of Pyr-
obsonia el similia,” says Pliny ; where we take the goteles, but of these the best known have been
first two words to mean, not that he decorated the demonstrated by Winckelmann to be forgeries,
walls of the barbers' and shoemakers' shops with and very few of the others have any pretensions to
his pictures, but that he made pictures of them. It authenticity. For the full discussion of the ge-
may also be taken for granted that these were nuineness or spuriousness of the several gems
treated in a quaint, or even a grotesque manner.
ascribed to Pyrgoteles, the reader is referred to
His paintings were a source of great delight (con- Winckelmann (Werke, rol. vi. pp. 107, &c. ), and
summatae voluplatis), and commanded higher prices Raoul-Rochette (Lettre à M. Schorn, pp. 150–152,
than the greatest works of many painters. (Plin. 2d ed. ).
[P. S. ]
H. N. xxxv. 10. s. 37. )
PYRILAMPES (Ilupınáunns), a statuary of
The ancients gave a name to this kind of paint- Messene, of whom nothing more is known than
ing, respecting the true form of which there is a that he was the maker of the statnes of three
difference of opinion. Pliny says that Pyreicus Olympic victors, namely, Pyrilampes of Ephesus,
was called, on account of the subjects of his pictures, Xenon of Lepreon, and Asamon. (Paus. vi. 3. & 5.
Rhyparographos (the reading of all the MSS. ), in- 8. 12, 15. § 1, 16. § 4. 6. 5. )
(P. S. )
stead of which Salmasius proposed to read Rhopo-
PYRIPHLE'GETHON (Ilvp. pleyéowy), flam-
graphos, as better suited to the sense, and Welckering with fire, is the name of one of the rivers in
adopts the correction (ad Philostr. 396), while the lower world. (Hom. Od. x. 513; Strab. v.
Sillig and others are satisfied with the former read- p. 244. )
(L. S. ]
ing. The difference is hardly important enough to
PYROʻMACHUS, artists. This name has
be discussed here. (See Sillig, Cat. Artif. s. v. ;
been the occasion of much confusion, owing to its
Döderlein, Lat. Synon. vol. i. p. 38; and the occurring in four different forms, namely, Phyro-
Greek Lexicons, s. vv. )
machus, Phylomachus, Philomachus, and Pyro-
Propertius (iii. 9. 12. s. 7. 12, machus, and owing also to the fact that there were
Burmann) in which Burmann reads, on the autho- two artists, who bore one or other of these three
Pyreicus parva vindicat arte locum,
1. We have already noticed the Athenian
sculptor, who executed the bas-reliefs on the frieze
where the great majority of the MSS. have Par of the temple of Athena Polias, about OL 91, B. C.
Thasius, a reading which would easily be inserted 415, and the true form of whose name was Phy-
by a transcriber ignorant of the less known name romachus
. [PHSROMACH US. ] This artist is evi-
of Pyreicus. In connection with Pyreicus the dently the same whom Pliny mentions, in his list
phrase parva arte has a clear meaning; whereas it of statuaries, as the maker of a group representing
There is a line
rity of two MSS. ,-
names.
!
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PYROMACHUS.
PYRRHON.
n.
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Alcibiades driving a four-horse chariot (Pyror example, that in the Florentine Gallery, No. 27.
machi quudriga regitur ab Alcibiade, Plin. H. N. (Müller, Arch d. Kunst, $$ 157", 394º. )
xxxiv. 8. s. 19. & 20: the reading of all the MSS.
