Antimachus

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[an-tim-uh-kuhs] / ænˈtɪm ə kəs /

noun

1. Also called the Colophonian.  flourished c410 b.c., Greek poet.

2. (in theIliad ) a chieftain who believed that the Trojans should not return Helen to Menelaus.

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Antimachus

Antimachus of Kolophon and one Nikeratus of Heraklea each wrote a poem on his deeds, and competed before him for a prize, at the Lysandreia.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Aubrey Stewart

Dear to my heart are aye the lightest works of my comrade, 10Leave I the mob to enjoy tumidest Antimachus.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton

For many treasures lie in the houses of Antimachus, brass, gold, and variously-wrought iron.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley

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 William Cowper

In imitation of Antimachus he wrote a work called Catachannae, probably a kind of miscellanea.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various