Parrhăsĭus

I. a celebrated Greek painter, a native of Ephesus, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 67 sq.; Prop. 3, 9 (4, 8), 12; Hor. C. 4, 8, 6; Sen. Contr. 5, 34.—Transf.: non multos apud nos futuros Polyclitos et Parrhasios fuisse, Cic. Tusc. 1, 2, 4.