a painter of antiquity, probably posterior to the time of Alexander the Great. Plin. xxxv. 11. There was also, in the first century after Christ, a sculptor of this name, who, with Pythodorus, adorned the palace of the Caesars with statues. Plin. xxxvi. 5.

a heretic of the second and third centuries, the founder of the sect called Artemonites, who applied philosophy and mathematics to the interpretation of Scripture. They asserted that Christ was merely a prophet exalted by his virtues above all others, but denied his divinity. Euscb.

Hist. Ecc. v. 28.