Proper name: ASCLEPIODO'RUS. 1. An Athenian painter, a contemporary of Apelles, who considered him to excel himself in the symmetry and correctness of his drawing. (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 10. s. 36. § 21.) Plutarch (de Gloria Athen. 2) ranks him with Euphranor and Nicias. 2. A statuary, famed for statues of philosophers. (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 19. § 26.) [C. P. M.] (
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