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

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

And Antimachus the Colophonian mentions it in his Thebais, where he says— The hyca, or the horse-fish, or the one Which they do call the thrush.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

His taste, however, was curious; he preferred Cato the elder, Ennius and Caelius Antipater to Cicero, Virgil and Sallust, the obscure poet Antimachus to Homer and Plato.

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

It put me in mind of that verse of Antimachus the poet, where he says—      “The ship sailed smoothly through the sylvan sea.”

From Trips to the Moon by Francklin, Thomas

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