Pindar

[pin-der]

noun

522?–443? b.c., Greek poet.

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But he would like to know first of all what he and Pindar mean by natural justice.
Gorgias
Plato
But there were also several other principles, and among them Pindar's 'law of violence.'
Laws
Plato
Pindar calls the beginnings of quarrel, "petals of quarrel."
Proserpina, Volume 1
John Ruskin
I hold with Pindar, “All that is most excellent is so by nature.”
Crotchet Castle
Thomas Love Peacock
The Odes of Pindar were the acknowledged models of lyric poetry.
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay
George Otto Trevelyan

British Dictionary definitions for pindar

Pindar

noun

?518–?438 bc, Greek lyric poet, noted for his Epinikia, odes commemorating victories in the Greek games

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Pindar

Examples from the Web for pindar

Historical Examples

But he would like to know first of all what he and Pindar mean by natural justice.

But there were also several other principles, and among them Pindar's 'law of violence.'

Pindar calls the beginnings of quarrel, "petals of quarrel."

I hold with Pindar, “All that is most excellent is so by nature.”

The Odes of Pindar were the acknowledged models of lyric poetry.

Pindar