Bacchylides

American  

[buh-kil-i-deez] / bəˈkɪl ɪˌdiz /

noun

1. flourished 5th century b.c., Greek poet.

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Example Sentences

The Theban poet Pindar and his rival Bacchylides , who both wrote victory odes in the fifth century BCE, were surely not the first to get sucked in.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2011

The method of Bacchylides is usually quieter; he paints cabinet pictures.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

In his youth he had some reputation as a lyric poet; so that he is sometimes classed with Pindar, Simonides, and Bacchylides.

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke

Bacchylides make Hecate the daughter of "deep-bosomed Night".

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

A pellucid style must always have been a source of wide, though modest, popularity for Bacchylides.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various