Pindar

[ pin-der ]

noun

1. 522?–443? b.c., Greek poet.

Pindar

/ ˈpɪndə /

noun

1. Pindar?518 bc?438 bcMGreekWRITING: poet ?518–?438 bc , Greek lyric poet, noted for his Epinikia, odes commemorating victories in the Greek games

Example Sentences

If inferior to Pindar in passion and loftiness, it glows with a more genial humanity and with purer wit.

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In form and spirit they resemble both the poems of the Hebrew psalter and the lyrics of Pindar.

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He was opposed by many of the academicians, and bitterly attacked by Peter Pindar.

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When a thought of Plato becomes a thought 30 to me,—when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more.

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But other blacks prefer to believe that, as Pindar puts the Phrygian legend, the sun saw men growing like trees.

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