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Alcaeus

noun

Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; reputed inventor of Alcaic verse (611-580 BC).

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... satirical. After Thespis, came his scholar Phrynicus, who wrote nine tragedies; for one of which, we are told, he was fined fifty drachmas, because he had made it (an odd reason) too deep, and too affecting; there was another, also named Phrynicus, author of two tragedies: to these must be added Alcaeus, Phormus, and Choeritas, together with Cephisodorus, an Athenian, who wrote the "Amazon," and Apollophanes, supposed to have been the author of a tragedy named "Daulis," though Suidas is of another opinion. ...

— A History of Pantomime • R. J. Broadbent

... set up to his chin in water, with every kind of fruit within reach: yet hungry as he was and thirsty, he could never attain to what he wanted; every thing which he caught at eluding his efforts. But from the account given above by [877]Pindar, as well as by [878]Alcaeus, Aleman, and other writers, his punishment consisted in having a stone hanging over his head; which kept him in perpetual fear. What is styled [Greek: lithos], was I make no doubt originally Petros; which ...

— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant

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