I'm dubbed Alcaeus, and retire in force. From Wordnik.com. [The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry] Reference
Alcaeus on, modern poets on her genius, on her passion. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
When Alcaeus protests, "But not with passion!" she rejoins. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
And the noble son of Alcaeus led them, rejoicing in his host. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
Alcaeus himself shows in one of his banquet odes that they chose. From Wordnik.com. [Politics] Reference
Zeus, Amphitryon of Argos, whom on a day Alcaeus, son of Perseus begat. From Wordnik.com. [Heracles] Reference
Alcaeus were natives of Lesbos in Aeolia, and wrote in the Aeolic dialect. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference
Alcaeus and Anacreon and all through the whole Anthology, we hear its praise. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
The latter merely retorted upon Alcaeus with some elegiac verses of his own: —. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
This was composed by Alcaeus in mockery of Philip, exaggerating the number of the slain. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
Amphytrion was the son of Alcaeus, King of Tiryns. From Wordnik.com. [The Antichrist] Reference
Alcaeus; and the other, in his, a very Callimachus. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise of Folly] Reference
Alcaeus of Mytilene produced some fine examples of the form. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Horace had tuned his ear upon the lyres of Sappho and Alcaeus. From Wordnik.com. [Horace] Reference
The harp of Homer, the trump of Pindar and of Alcaeus are still. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference
Horace, which there are reasons for believing were imitated from Alcaeus. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Literature] Reference
Hyperides, the comedies of Menander, 110 and the odes of Alcaeus and Sappho. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Then there were the poets who made verses to be set to music: Alcaeus, Sappho, Anacreon. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Literature] Reference
Alcaeus calls her, chanted her lyrics and poured forth her soul nearly six centuries before. From Wordnik.com. [A Voice From the South] Reference
Alcaeus and Sappho of Lesbos, Mimnermus of Smyrna or Colophon, Anacreon of Teos, and many more. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient East] Reference
St Jerome discovers therein a Horace, a Catullus, an Alcaeus (Epist. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Aeolic of Alcaeus and Sappho, the Doric of choral lyric poetry, etc.). From Wordnik.com. [LINGUISTICS] Reference
Dog-heads), was the following epigram, composed by Alcaeus in mockery of. From Wordnik.com. [The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls] Reference
In conclusion it may be worth while to add the graceful epigram of Alcaeus of Messene (“Palatine. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
Archonship of Alcaeus at Athens. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference
The cross that shall Alcaeus crucify. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
Heracles, the great-hearted offspring of Alcaeus?. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
And fierce Alcaeus holds his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference
The first line is quoted from Alcaeus. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference
So does Alcaeus, though in all beside. From Wordnik.com. [The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry] Reference
Beyond the lure of light Alcaeus 'lyre. From Wordnik.com. [Helen of Troy and Other Poems] Reference
Like a god's trident, now Alcaeus 'quill. From Wordnik.com. [Life Immovable First Part] Reference
Lesbos, where Sappho and Alcaeus were born. From Wordnik.com. [A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest] Reference
Lo here Alcaeus sleeps; whom earth's green child. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
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