Definitions
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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Trochilidae . - proper noun An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a 7th century Archaic or a Classical Greek poet.
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- noun a genus of Trochilidae
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A young girl holding a myrtle branch in Archilochus survives in
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It is enough to name Archilochus, whom Mahaffy terms the Swift of Greek Literature, Simonides of Amorgos (circ.
English Satires Various 1885
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Beautifully engineered hyperlink-like narrative coincidences take the reader from London's present-day dwindling hedgehog population to the seventh-century lyric poet Archilochus -- "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing, as Archilochus said, but what was it?"
Janet Byrne: Nicole Krauss's 'Great House' Reviewed Janet Byrne 2010
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Back in 1953, British philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously laid out two opposing styles of leadership -- hedgehogs and foxes -- taking his cue from a line in an ancient Greek poem by Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
Arianna Huffington: Why America Is Deeply in Need of a Good Hedgehog Arianna Huffington 2011
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Back in 1953, British philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously laid out two opposing styles of leadership -- hedgehogs and foxes -- taking his cue from a line in an ancient Greek poem by Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
Arianna Huffington: Why America Is Deeply in Need of a Good Hedgehog Arianna Huffington 2011
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Back in 1953, British philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously laid out two opposing styles of leadership -- hedgehogs and foxes -- taking his cue from a line in an ancient Greek poem by Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
Arianna Huffington: Why America Is Deeply in Need of a Good Hedgehog Arianna Huffington 2011
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Beautifully engineered hyperlink-like narrative coincidences take the reader from London's present-day dwindling hedgehog population to the seventh-century lyric poet Archilochus -- "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing, as Archilochus said, but what was it?"
Janet Byrne: Nicole Krauss's 'Great House' Reviewed Janet Byrne 2010
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Back in 1953, British philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously laid out two opposing styles of leadership -- hedgehogs and foxes -- taking his cue from a line in an ancient Greek poem by Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
Arianna Huffington: Why America Is Deeply in Need of a Good Hedgehog Arianna Huffington 2011
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Archilochus, the Greek fabulist, once said, "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
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As long as we're upping the stakes here, I sure wish somebody would return the Library of Alexandria that I loaned out, along with the complete works of Archilochus and Sappho.
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