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Praxĭdĭcum and Praxĭdĭca, v. pragmaticus, I. B.

Praxillēus or Praxillīus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Sicyonian poetess Praxilla: Praxilleum metrum Ionicum majus trimetrum brachycatalectum, Serv. p. 1824 P.: id autem, quod trochaeum recipit, Praxillium dixerunt, ut metrum Praxillae poëtriae Sicyoniae, quod est trimetrum brachycatalectum, habens semper in secundā regione trochaicam basin post Ionicam primam, Marius Victor. ib. p. 2538 P.

Praxĭtĕles, is, m., = Πραξιτέλης, a celebrated Greek sculptor, Prop. 3, 7, 15 (4, 8, 16); cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 2, § 4; Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 69; 36, 5, 4, § 21.
Hence, Praxĭtĕlīus, a, um, adj., = Πραξιτέλειος, of or belonging to Praxiteles, Praxitelian: capita, Cic. Div. 2, 21, 48: Venus, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 22.