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Perillus

Perillus · m

a famous Athenian worker in metal

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Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Pĕrillus — Lewis & Short

Pĕrillus, i, m., = *pe/rillos,

I a famous Athenian worker in metal, who made a brazen bull for the tyrant Phalaris, in which criminals were to be enclosed and roasted to death, and was the first that suffered in this manner, Ov. A. A. 1, 653; Sil. 14, 212; Prop. 2, 25, 12; Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 89.—Hence,

II Pĕrillēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Perillus, Perillean (poet.), Ov. Ib. 439.

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