apoxyomenos

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  1. In Greek antiquity, one using the strigil; one scraping dust and perspiration from his body, as a bather or an athlete. Famous representations in art are a statue by Polycletus and one by Lysippus. My own impression of the relief [at Athens] of Apoxyomenoi is that the style had been influenced by Praxiteles. A. S. Murray, Greek Sculpture, II. 334, note.

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  1. Greek ἀποξυόμενος, present participle mid. of ἀποξύειν, scrape off, from ἀπό, off, + ξύειν, scrape.
 

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