Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Aes uxorium, Agatharchus

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Agatharchus

（Ἀγάθαρχος).

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A Greek, the inventor of scene-painting. See Vitruv. vii. Praef. and the articles Pictura; Theatrum.

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A Samian painter, the contemporary of Zeuxis, who prided himself on the rapidity of his work, receiving from Zeuxis the famous retort that if Agatharcus painted his works in a short time, he (Zeuxis) painted “for a long time,” i. e. for posterity.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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