Pittacus
Americannoun
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The most successful of these products, 2011’s I Am Number Four, was written by Frey and Jobie Hughes under the pseudonym Pittacus Lore and was adapted by DreamWorks in 2011.
From Slate • Dec. 17, 2019
By the late 2010s, several big- and small-screen adaptions of hugely popular YA fantasy and science fiction series by Roth, Clare, Rick Yancey, and Pittacus Lore himself had bombed at the box office.
From Slate • Dec. 17, 2019
Pittacus Lore, the leader of Lorien has supposedly been tracing the footsteps of his champions.
From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2012
Frey doesn't publicly admit to penning the first book in the series; it's probably wise to let Pittacus take the rap for the movie as well.
From Time • Feb. 17, 2011
First the poet says, 'Hard is it to become good,' and then reproaches Pittacus for having said, 'Hard is it to be good.'
From Protagoras by Jowett, Benjamin
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