Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or produced by Phidias, the most eminent artist of the most splendid time of ancient Athens, during the fifth century
b. c. , the artistic director of the monumental works of Pericles, and the sculptor of the decoration of the Parthenon and of the chryselephantine Zeus of Olympia.
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His hard face was ashen with rage, and he stared at a calendar on the wall with his cold, phidian stare.
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Paterson in which he includes a letter I wrote to him, without my permission, and under somebody else's initials, is a fraud. the man is very spongy, and imagines by repeating the word rock about a hundred and thirty-five times that he can become hard or give the effect of having phidian intellect. "
orbis quintus 2009
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