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Pindar

American  
[pin-der] / ˈpɪn dər /

noun

  1. 522?–443? b.c., Greek poet.


Pindar British  
/ ˈpɪndə /

noun

  1. ?518–?438 bc , Greek lyric poet, noted for his Epinikia, odes commemorating victories in the Greek games

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Last year one of its top 10 shareholders, Lecram Holdings, called for the removal of chairman Paul Pindar.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2023

The Greek poet Pindar said that “neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed in their sacred blood.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2018

“Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed / in their sacred blood,” the poet Pindar wrote of the Hyperboreans in the fifth century B.C.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2017

Pindar Van Arman, 42, a board member for The Colonies condo complex of about 1,000 residents, said he is excited to live within walking distance of the McLean Metro station.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2016

Cleopatra read Homer’s epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, poetry by Hesiod and Pindar; and plays by Euripides and Menander.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

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