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

The Thebaid of Antimachus, however, was not popular, and seems to have been a great storehouse of mythological learning rather than a poem of the Homeric school.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

Menander is the starting-point to others, while Benecke has written a book to prove that the credit of inventing modern love belongs to Antimachus of Colophon.

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

The precedent of Antimachus proved fatal to Statius.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

Amidst the tumult of the routed train, The sons of false Antimachus were slain; He who for bribes his faithless counsels sold, And voted Helen's stay for Paris' gold.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

For many treasures lie in the houses of Antimachus, brass, gold, and variously-wrought iron.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois