Callimachus
Americannoun
noun
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late 5th century bc , Greek sculptor, reputed to have invented the Corinthian capital
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?305–?240 bc , Greek poet of the Alexandrian School; author of hymns and epigrams
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The assignment was a two-page essay, in Greek, on any epigram of Callimachus that we chose.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
It was originally formed by the poet Callimachus in the third century B.C., but was not generally accepted until reformed by Hevelius.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard
When the poets of Rome began their imitative study of Alexandrian models, it was natural that the elegies of writers such as Callimachus should tempt them to immediate imitation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
Callimachus and Euphorion are mentioned as the models followed by Gallus, Propertius, and Tibullus71.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.
In the strict acceptation of the term, scarcely any Greek elegy has descended to us entire, except perhaps a few lines by Callimachus on the death of Heraclitus.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John
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