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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This is manifest from a passage in Antimachus, quoted by Pausanias, where her temple is spoken of as the shrine of a Fury.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Bryant, Jacob
For many treasures lie in the houses of Antimachus, brass, gold, and variously-wrought iron.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
Yes, she was collecting material for a book on Antimachus of Colophon.
From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May
The Thebaid of Antimachus, however, was not popular, and seems to have been a great storehouse of mythological learning rather than a poem of the Homeric school.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
Four weeks ago he would have been more interested in Antimachus than Miss Roots herself, he would have talked about him by the hour together.
From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May
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