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

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

The short writings of my comrade are gladsome to my heart; let the populace rejoice in bombastic Antimachus.

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

And so from Antimachus onward Polynices and Eteocles are the tragic figures of the epic.

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

But that Antimachus knew anything of such love is a pure figment of Benecke's imagination.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

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