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Pyrgotĕles

Πυργοτέλης). A celebrated Greek engraver of gems who flourished in the fourth century B.C., in the reign of Alexander the Great, who admired him so much as to allow no other artist to engrave the royal seal-rings (Pliny , Pliny H. N. vii. 125; xxxvii. 8). See Gemma.

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