Pindar

American  

[pin-der] / ˈpɪn dər /

noun

1. 522?–443? b.c., Greek poet.

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Pindar British  

/ ˈpɪndə /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Last year one of its top 10 shareholders, Lecram Holdings, called for the removal of chairman Paul Pindar.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2023

The Greek poet Pindar said that “neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed in their sacred blood.”

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2018

“Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed / in their sacred blood,” the poet Pindar wrote of the Hyperboreans in the fifth century B.C.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2017

Pindar Van Arman, 42, a board member for The Colonies condo complex of about 1,000 residents, said he is excited to live within walking distance of the McLean Metro station.

From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2016

His adventure with the snakes when he was a baby is told by Pindar in the fifth century and by Theocritus in the third.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton