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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 470 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CRITIUS and NESIOTES, two See also:

Greek sculptors of uncertain school, of the See also:

TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
TIME, STANDARD

time of the See also:

Persian See also:

WARS

Wars. When See also:

XERXES (the Greek form of the Pers. Khshayarsha; Old Testament Ahasverus, Akhashverosh—i.e. Ahasuerus (q.v.)—with wrong vocalization and substitution of y for v, instead of Akhshavarsh; in Aramaic inscriptions and papyri from Egypt the name is written Khs

Xerxes carried away to See also:

PERSIA

Persia the statues of See also:

HARMODIUS

Harmodius and Aristogiton made by See also:

ANTENOR

Antenor, Critius and Nesiotes were commissioned to replace them. By the help of coins and reliefs, two statues at See also:

Naples, wrongly restored as See also:

GLADIATORS (from Lat. gladius, sword)

gladiators, have been identified as copies of the tyrannicides of Critius; and to them well apply the words in which See also:

Lucian (Rhetor. praecepta, 9) describes the See also:

WORKS

works of Critius and Nesiotes, " closely knit and sinewy, and hard and severe in outline." Critius also made a statue of the armed runner Epicharinus.

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