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

In imitation of Antimachus he wrote a work called Catachannae, probably a kind of miscellanea.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 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 sources for his story were the old Cyclic poem, the later epic of Antimachus, the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, that draw their plots from the Theban cycle of legend.

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

I say it freely; may Zeus confound Antimachus, the poet-historian, the son of Psacas!

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes

He gave the crown of victory to Nikeratus, which so enraged Antimachus that he suppressed his poem.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey