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Pentelic, a.|pənˈtɛlɪk|
Also 6 erron. pentlike.
[ad. L. Pentelic-us, a. Gr. Πεντελικός, f. Πεντελή name of a deme of Attica.]
Of or from Mount Pentelicus, near Athens: esp. applied to the famous white marble there quarried.
1579–80North Plutarch (1895) I. 266 The pillers..are cut out of a quarrie of marbell, called pentlike marbell. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece i. viii. (1715) 39 If [the Stadium] was built of Pentelick Marble. 1881Archit. Publ. Soc. Dict., Pentelic Marble..is still used (1878) as for the new academy at Athens.
So † Penteˈlician, Penˈtelican adjs.
1741Middleton Cicero I. ii. 135 The Mercuries..of Pentelician marble, with brazen heads. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Plato Wks. (Bohn) I. 294 They [the Greeks] cut the Pentelican marble as if it were snow. |