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Definition of Archilochus
1. Noun. A genus of Trochilidae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Trochilidae, Trochilidae
Member holonyms: Archilochus Colubris
Definition of Archilochus
1. Proper noun. An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a 7th century Archaic or a Classical Greek poet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archilochus
Literary usage of Archilochus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Problems in Greek History by John Pentland Mahaffy (1892)
"Moreover, an eclipse which archilochus mentions seems to be that in April, 647
BC, which was total at Thasos, where the poet spent his later years. ..."
2. Greek Lyric Poetry: A Complete Collection of the Surviving Passages from the by George Stanley Farnell (1891)
"In the first place it is quite certain that archilochus was a composer not only
of Iambic and Elegiac but also of Melic poetry proper. ..."
3. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1894)
"From the Ionian archilochus of Paros we have some beautiful verses mourning the
fate . archilochus. of friends who had been lost at sea. ..."
4. Swans and Amber: Some Early Greek Lyrics by Dorothy Burr Thompson (1988)
"archilochus, a typical adventurous islander from Faros, famous for its ...
He lived in the late eighth or early seventh century BC archilochus had a poet's ..."
5. A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece by William Mure (1850)
"ON THE PERSONAL CHARACTERS OF ANACREON, archilochus, AND SAPPHO. WELCKER ' appears
to go further in the case of Anacreon, and, if we have understood him ..."
6. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"archilochus was fo much addi£led to raillery and ... fays he to At- ticus, " feem
to me the beft, as the iambics of archilochus did to ..."
7. Res Metrica: An Introduction to the Study of Greek & Roman Versification by William Ross Hardie (1920)
"archilochus was looked upon by ancient critics as a poet of the same quality as
Homer, though he attempted nothing on the scale of the epos,1 and in ..."
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