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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

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Over the past 18 months there have been a number of management reshuffles at the company, a restructure, and one of its shareholders called for the removal of its chairman, Paul Pindar.

From BBC • May 17, 2023

A top-ten shareholder in Purplebricks Group Plc on Tuesday called for the removal of Chairman Paul Pindar, hours after Britain's biggest online-only estate agency reported its first annual loss since the pre-pandemic 2019 fiscal year.

From Reuters • Aug. 3, 2022

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 is quite as important for mythology as Hesiod.

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

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