Antimachus
Americannoun
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Also called the Colophonian. flourished c410 b.c., Greek poet.
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(in theIliad ) a chieftain who believed that the Trojans should not return Helen to Menelaus.
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The precedent of Antimachus proved fatal to Statius.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
Then King Agamemnon took the two sons of Antimachus, Pisander and brave Hippolochus.
From The Iliad by Homer
Diodotus Soter appears also on coins struck in his memory by the later Graeco-Bactrian kings Agathocles and Antimachus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
His taste, however, was curious; he preferred Cato the elder, Ennius and Caelius Antipater to Cicero, Virgil and Sallust, the obscure poet Antimachus to Homer and Plato.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
Are ye indeed the offspring of the Chief165 Antimachus, who when my brother once With godlike Laertiades your town Enter'd ambassador, his death advised In council, and to let him forth no more?
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
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