Polyclētus

, a celebrated statuary of Sicyon, about 232 years before Christ. He was universally reckoned the most skilful artist of his profe ion among the ancients, and the second rank was given to Phidias. One of his pieces, in which he had represented a body-guard of the king of Persia, was so happily executed, and so nice and exact in all its proportions, that it was looked upon as a most perfect model, and accordingly called the Rule . He was acquainted with architecture. Pausanias , bks. 2 & 6.— Quintilian , bk. 12 , ch. 10 .――Another, who lived about 30 years after.――A favourite of the emperor Nero, put to death by Galba.