Ibycus

American  

[ib-i-kuhs] / ˈɪb ɪ kəs /

noun

1. flourished c540 b.c., Greek poet.

---

Example Sentences

He cried out as if panic-stricken, “The cranes of Ibycus, the avengers!”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

He never fails to teach by precept and example; he does not, as Ibycus is reported to have done, adorn his verse with legends of Ganymede and Tithonus, for the sake of insinuating compliments.

From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington

The earlier Ibycus had not seemed greatly to interest him.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

But Ibycus of Rhegium appears, from his writings, to have had this love stronger on him than all the rest.

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke

Ibycus resembles Sappho in the intensity of his passion and in his conception of Eros as a concrete existence.

From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell