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Parrhasius: the great painter of the close of the fifth century B.C. In an epigram in Athenaeus (12.543. C) he boasts that he had attained the limits of art.--Scopas: the great sculptor of the first half of the fourth century. protulit: created, invented. Cf. Tibull. 1.10.1, quis fuit horrendos primus qui protulit enses?


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