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Pittacus

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[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 has expressed his conception of the the story as an action/sci-fi book.

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

It was a very true story, quoth Pittacus, and there are divers still alive who will attest it, if need be.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch