Perillus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Pĕrillus, i, m., = Πέριλλος,

I 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.