Antimachus

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[an-tim-uh-kuhs] / ænˈtɪm ə kəs /

noun

1. Also called the Colophonian.  flourished c410 b.c., Greek poet.

2. (in theIliad ) a chieftain who believed that the Trojans should not return Helen to Menelaus.

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Example Sentences

And Antimachus the Colophonian mentions it in his Thebais, where he says— The hyca, or the horse-fish, or the one Which they do call the thrush.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

But that Antimachus knew anything of such love is a pure figment of Benecke's imagination.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

This is manifest from a passage in Antimachus, quoted by Pausanias, where her temple is spoken of as the shrine of a Fury.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Bryant, Jacob

Four weeks ago he would have been more interested in Antimachus than Miss Roots herself, he would have talked about him by the hour together.

From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May

The short writings of my comrade are gladsome to my heart; let the populace rejoice in bombastic Antimachus.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir