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Zoilus

Ζωΐλος

(Ζωΐλος), artists.

1. A medallist, whose name occurs on the coins of Perseus, king of Macedonia, in such a manner as to make it certain, in the opinion of Raoul-Rochette, that the name is that of the engraver of the medals. (Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 98, 2d ed.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.