AGORACRITUS

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AGORACRITUS , a Parian and Athenian sculptor of the age of Phidias, and said to have been his favourite

pupil

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus,
orphan
- ORPHAN
, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for "
doll
- DOLL
," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

. His most noted

work

WORK

was the statue at Rhamnus of Nemesis, by some attributed to Phidias himself. Of this statue

part

PART

of the head is in the

British

BRITISH

Museum; some fragments of the reliefs which adorned the

pedestal

PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo, foot of a
stall
- STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors
)

are in the museum at Athens.

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