Tyrtaeus

How to use Tyrtaeus in a sentence

• Oh Tyrtaeus, I would say to him, we agree with you in praising those who excel in war, but which kind of war do you mean?

  Laws | Plato

• The virtue of Tyrtaeus, although needful enough in his own time, is really of a fourth-rate description.

  Laws | Plato

• The martial poet Tyrtaeus, and the oligarch Theognis, furnish him with happy illustrations of the two sorts of courage.

  Laws | Plato

• After these, excellent Homer and Tyrtaeus animated the manly mind to martial achievements with their verses.

  The Works of Horace | Horace

• It was a little lame schoolmaster, Tyrtaeus, who aroused the Spartans by his poetry and led them to victory against the foe.

  Sinking of the Titanic | Various