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Artifex may refer to:
- HMS Artifex (F28), a repair ship of the Royal Navy
- Artifex Gallery, an art gallery in Taos, New Mexico
- Artifex Pereo, an American rock band from Louisville, Kentucky
- Artifex Records, an independent jazz, Celtic and new age record label, based in Nashville
- Artifex Software, an American company developing Ghostscript software suite
- Cecidoses artifex, a moth of the Cecidosidae family
- Exoletuncus artifex, a species of moth of the Tortricidae family
- Pisidium artifex, a species of freshwater clam in the family Sphaeriidae
Usage examples of "artifex".
For a few minutes they sat in silent suspense, doubtful of their unexpected deliverance, and suspicious of the cruel artifices of Commodus: but when at length they were assured that the tyrant was no more, they resigned themselves to all the transports of joy and indignation.
Most engineers were assigned to tiny rooms with fold-down beds, but Hackworth bore the loftier title of Artifex and had been a team leader on this very project, so he rated a second-class stateroom with one double bed and a fold-out for Fiona.
Of course, more unusual than all the rest, (than the commission for the artifex and his assistants to paint the two dining rooms, the library, and the rich man's bedroom, all in greens and variations of green) was the straw hat, such as a farmer might put on, clamped down on Livius' noble head, even here in the shade.
The artifex and his men had worked swiftly, perhaps with not as much agility as speed.
Clutching a dagger, he brought it up to his throat and said, "Qualis artifex pereo!
One of these, 6 1/2 feet long, and of 2 1/2 inches bore, manufactured in 1543, bears the cast inscription of Petrus Baude Gallus operis artifex.
For all that, he still thought man the most plastic little fellow in the planet, and he liked Nero's death, _"Qualis artifex pereo!