Perillus
- a famous Athenian worker in metal, who made a brazen bull for the tyrant Phalaris, in which criminals were to be enclosed and roasted to death, and was the first that suffered in this manner, Ov. A. A. 1, 653; Sil. 14, 212; Prop. 2, 25, 12; Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 89.—Hence,
- II Pĕrillēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Perillus, Perillean (poet.), Ov. Ib. 439.
(Πέριλλος ; the form Περίλαος in Lucian, Phal. l, and the Scholiast to Pindar, Pind. P. 1.185, probably arises from a confusion of A with A), a statuary, was the maker of the bronze hull of the tyrant Phalaris, respecting wlich see further under Phalaris. Of the modern disquisitionsonr this instrument of torture, the most important are those of Göller (De Situ et Orig. Syracus. pp. 272, &c.) and Böttiger (Kunstmythologie, vol. i. p. 380). Müller places the artist at ol, 55, B. C. 560. Like the makers of other instruments of death, Perillus is said to have become one of the victims of his own handiwork. [P.S]
(Πέριλλος). An artist who is said to have made the great bronze bull for the tyrant Phalaris (see Phalaris), and to have been himself the victim of his own invention (Ovid, A. A. i. 653).