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What does Praxiteles mean?

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Proper noun
  1. The most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC, and the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue.
  2. A crater on the planet Mercury measuring 182 km in diameter.
  3. A main-belt asteroid discovered in 1973.
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I would compare the mind to the beautiful statue of Love by Praxiteles.
And may I drink red wine with Praxiteles, or with Catullus beside his lake?
In the last of these stood the statue of Eros by Praxiteles.
Dion thought of Rosamund's words about Praxiteles as they sat before Hermes.
Hermes and the Infant Dionysos, possibly an original by Praxiteles, 4th century.
Phryne served as a model to Praxiteles, for his Venus of Cnidus.

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