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Volume 6 · 62 words · 1815 Edition

a Greek painter, about 276 years before Christ, in the reign of Antiochus I. He revenged the injuries he had received from Queen Stratonice, by representing her in the arms of a fisherman. However indecent the painter might represent the queen, she was drawn with such personal beauty, that she preferred the piece and liberally rewarded the artist.

CLETHRA: See Botany Index.