E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Polycle’tus.
A statuary of Sic’you, who deduced a canon of the proportions of the several parts of the human body, and made a statue of a Persian bodyguard, which was admitted by all to be a model of the human form, and was called “The Rule” (the standard).
