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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Example Sentences

The sources for his story were the old Cyclic poem, the later epic of Antimachus, the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, that draw their plots from the Theban cycle of legend.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

Homer, Pindar says, was a Chian and of Smyrnae; Simonides says a Chian; Antimachus and Nicander, a Colophonion; but the philosopher Aristotle says he was of Iete; the historian Ephorus says he was from Kyme.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

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 Stewart, Aubrey

Then King Agamemnon took the two sons of Antimachus, Pisander and brave Hippolochus.

From The Iliad by Homer

But it is possible to be prolix without being an Antimachus, and the prolixity of Statius is quite sufficient.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth