Parrhasius, a gifted painter of ancient Greece, born at Ephesus; came to Athens and became the rival of Zeuxis; he was the contemporary of Socrates and a man of an arrogant temper; his works were characterised by the pains bestowed on them.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Parramatta * Parry, Sir William Edward