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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 658 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NICIAS , son of Nicomedes, an See also:

ATTIC (i.e. "in the Attic style ")

Attic painter of the 4th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C . See also:

Pliny (See also:

XXXV

xxxv . 131) gives a See also:

list of his See also:

WORKS

works . He was associated with See also:

PRAXITELES

Praxiteles, whose statues he coloured, thus adding to their value .

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