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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Trochilidae .
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Examples
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Arpaliki was buried under Leonidas 'loot and Myrtis was extinguished by the music of Pindar's lyre, which she had composed.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Like Myrtis, she is said to have instructed him, and is credited with having gained a victory over him in the public games at Thebes.
Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson
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Myrtis, a native of Anthedon, is reported to have been the instructress of Pindar, and is said to have contended with him for the palm of superiority.
Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson
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They will let Myrtis play with them and perhaps Myrtis 'girl-chum from Westover.
Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917
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Junior and Myrtis will want a clay one because you can dance on a clay one in the evening.
Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917
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Eucampidas; the Argives by Myrtis, Teledamus, and Mnaseas; the Eleans by
The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912
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Boeotia, and that there was still much love for music and poetry there is proved by the fact that two women, Myrtis and Corinna, had obtained great celebrity in these arts during the youth of this poet.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853
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The Greeks always accounted Sappho among their great poets; and we may well suppose that Myrtis, said to have been the teacher of Pindar, and Corinna, who five times bore away from him the prize of poetry, must at least have had sufficient merit to admit of being compared with that great name.
The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill 1839
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Not Free SF Reader : Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Myrtis - Christine DeWees skip to main
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Myrtis - Christine DeWees Blue Tyson 2007
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Ab utroque difcrepant ordine filamcntis ftamiuum bifctofis Sc antheris longis apice roftratis, numcro eanmKiem dcfinito SalicariiS propitis acccdcntcs & a Myrtis diftanciorcs.
Antonii Laurentii de Jussieu ... Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita : juxta methodum in horto regio Parisiensi exaratam, anno M.DCC.LXXIV Barrois, Théophile, printer 1789
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