CALLIMACHUS, a celebrated architect, painter, and sculptor, born at Corinth, having seen by accident a vessel about which the plant called acanthus had raised its leaves, conceived the idea of forming the Corinthian capital. (See ACANTHUS, and Plate XXV. (8). fig. 4.) The ancients assure us, that he worked in marble with wonderful delicacy. He flourished about 540 B. C.