Zeuxis

a celebrated painter, born at Heraclea. He flourished about 468 yea B.C. con temp otary with Parr has i us. In the att of painting he not only surpa ed all his contemporaries, but also his’ master A pol lop a gable by cuttings. See Botany, PIl.CXCI, dor us.” His most celebrated paintings were his = ZIGETH, a strong town of Hungary, which Fipiter sitting on a throne, surrounded by the has been several times besieged. and taken by gods; his Hercules strangling the serpents in the presence of his affrighted parents; modest Penelope; and his'Heten, which was placed in the temple of Juno Lucina, at Agri- 46.8 N. pentum. ‘This Jast piece he had painted at the request of the Agrigentines, and executed it flexuous. with wonderful succe . For his contest with Parr has i us, see PARR HAS I US. “ZEYLANITE, in mineralogy, a species of father was a senator, and his mother a French schorl. See Scorivs, “ZIA, an island of the Archipelago, to the S. of Negropont, 15 miles long and eight broad. It belongs to the Turks, but most of the indisposition as much habitants are Greeks, and have a bishop. abounds in barley, wine, and silk; also a fine sort of oak, whose fruit, called vill am, is°the best trading commodity of the island, it being used by dyers and tanners. The principal town, of the same name, is seated on an eminence, and has a good harbeur, with about 2500 houses, all flat at the top. Lat. 37. 48 N. yf Zi zi 414