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Pittacus

American  
[pit-uh-kuhs] / ˈpɪt ə kəs /

noun

  1. c650–570 b.c., democratic statesman and reformer from Mytilene.


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The most successful of these products, 2011’s I Am Number Four, was written by Frey and Jobie Hughes under the pseudonym Pittacus Lore and was adapted by DreamWorks in 2011.

From Slate Dec. 17, 2019

By the late 2010s, several big- and small-screen adaptions of hugely popular YA fantasy and science fiction series by Roth, Clare, Rick Yancey, and Pittacus Lore himself had bombed at the box office.

From Slate Dec. 17, 2019

Pittacus Lore, the leader of Lorien has supposedly been tracing the footsteps of his champions.

From The Guardian Aug. 19, 2012

Frey doesn't publicly admit to penning the first book in the series; it's probably wise to let Pittacus take the rap for the movie as well.

From Time Feb. 17, 2011

Fully expressed, the argument is in the Third Figure:— Pittacus is earnest.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

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