Ibycus
Americannoun
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He cried out as if panic-stricken, “The cranes of Ibycus, the avengers!”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
It must be remembered that both Anacreon and Ibycus were court poets, singing in the palaces of Polycrates and Hippias.
From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by John Addington Symonds
The body of Ibycus was found and recognized, and the multitude assembled to witness the Isthmian games were sorely disappointed and dismayed at the sad tidings of his death.
From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by Catherine Ann White
And Ibycus says that ambrosia is nine times as sweet as honey; stating expressly that honey has just one-ninth part of the power of ambrosia as far as sweetness goes.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
And were not the murderers of Ibycus similarly captured?
From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto
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