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 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

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

Hence doubtless the claim of Colophon to be the native city of Homer—a claim supported in the early times of Homeric learning by the Colophonian poet and grammarian Antimachus.

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

Dear to my heart be a friend's unbulky memorial ever; 10 Cherish an Antimachus, weighty as empty, the mob.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson

The precedent of Antimachus proved fatal to Statius.

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