Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Greek lyric poet remembered especially for his odes celebrating victorious athletes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pinder . - noun Same as
pindal .
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- proper noun A great Ancient Greek lyric poet from
Thebes
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Greek lyric poet remembered for his odes (518?-438? BC)
Etymologies
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Second, he keeps the focus on his victim’s grotesquely debased desires, admitting none of his own, but also observes a certain decorum: Peter Pindar is "a prodigy of drunkenness and lust" (line 98) with an added measure of sacrilege, deviating in recognizable ways from recognizable norms. [
'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s 2006
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It is grown in Jamaica, and there called Pindar nut.
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Theodulfe was called Pindar; the abbot Adelard was called Augustine;
The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands Charles Butler 1791
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The early fifth century was also marked by poets such as Pindar and AEschylus, who raised the religious ideals of the nation on to a higher plane, who consciously rejected the less worthy conceptions of the gods, and, whether in accordance with the popular beliefs or not, gave expression to a higher truth in religion than had hitherto been dreamed of.
Religion and Art in Ancient Greece Ernest Arthur Gardner
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Milton's first notable poem, written in college days, was the "Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity," a chant of victory and praise such as Pindar might have written had he known the meaning of
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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In his translations from "Pindar" he found the art of reaching all the obscurity of the Theban bard, however he may fall below his sublimity; he will be allowed, if he has less fire, to have more smoke.
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 Samuel Johnson 1746
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