Pindar
522?–443? b.c., Greek poet.
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If inferior to Pindar in passion and loftiness, it glows with a more genial humanity and with purer wit.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordIn form and spirit they resemble both the poems of the Hebrew psalter and the lyrics of Pindar.
Sacred Books of the East | VariousHe was opposed by many of the academicians, and bitterly attacked by Peter Pindar.
Art in England | Dutton CookWhen a thought of Plato becomes a thought 30 to me,—when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more.
But other blacks prefer to believe that, as Pindar puts the Phrygian legend, the sun saw men growing like trees.
Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 | Andrew Lang
British Dictionary definitions for Pindar
/ (ˈpɪndə) /
?518–?438 bc, Greek lyric poet, noted for his Epinikia, odes commemorating victories in the Greek games
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