Alcander

The year following that in which Mr. Pope wrote his poem on Silence, he began an Epic Poem, intitled Alcander, which he afterwards very judiciously committed to the flames, as he did likewise a Comedy, and a Tragedy; the latter taken from a story in the legend of St. Genevieve; both of these being the product of those early days.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

"Alcander," the epic poem, was burnt by the persuasion of Atterbury.

Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Johnson, Samuel 1891

"Alcander," the epic poem, was burnt by the persuasion of Atterbury.

Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson 1746

Lycurgus, having thanked them for their care of his person, dismissed them all, excepting only Alcander; and, taking him with him into his house, neither did nor said anything severely to him, but, dismissing those whose place it was bade Alcander to wait upon him at table.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Lycurgus, so far from being daunted and discouraged by this accident, stopped short, and showed his disfigured face and eye beat out to his countrymen; they, dismayed and ashamed at the sight, delivered Alcander into his hands to be punished, and escorted him home, with expressions of great concern for his ill usage.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

"The Amours of Henri IV.," disguised under the name of Alcander.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Halys he sends to join them, and Phegeus, pierced right through the shield; then, as they ignorantly raised their war-cry on the walls, Alcander and Halius,

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

The Alcander epic, which had reached as many as 4000 lines, was laid aside and never completed.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

His first idea was to compose a great epic, the subject that presented itself being a mythological one, with Alcander, a prince of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

A little dust of earth suffices me; let another lie richly, weighed down by his extravagant tombstone, that grim weight over the dead, who will know me here in death as Alcander son of Calliteles.

Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902