Bacchylides

American  

[buh-kil-i-deez] / bəˈkɪl ɪˌdiz /

noun

1. flourished 5th century b.c., Greek poet.

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Example Sentences

The Theban poet Pindar and his rival Bacchylides , who both wrote victory odes in the fifth century BCE, were surely not the first to get sucked in.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2011

Ceos, one of the Cyclades, a small island 13 m. by 8 m., yields fruits; was the birthplace of Simonides and Bacchylides.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

Several other classes of composition are represented by those fragments of Bacchylides, preserved in ancient literature, which were known before the discovery of the new MS.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

The method of Bacchylides is usually quieter; he paints cabinet pictures.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

Ariston is also mentioned as an ancient flute-player of Argos, in an epigram of Simonides or Bacchylides, Brunck's Analect. vol.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried