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Praxiteles

//pɹakˈsɪtɪliːz// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BCE, and the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue.

    "The altar was adorned with the masterly sculptures of Praxiteles, who had, perhaps, selected from the favorite legends of the place the birth of the divine children of Latona, the concealment of Apollo after the slaughter of the Cyclops, and the clemency of Bacchus to the vanquished Amazons."

  2. 2
    A crater on the planet Mercury measuring 182 km in diameter.
  3. 3
    A main-belt asteroid discovered in 1973.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Prāxitelēs, from Ancient Greek Πρᾱξῐτέλης (Prāxĭtélēs).

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