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- proper noun An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a 7th century BC choral lyric poet from
Sparta .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Alcman," exclaimed Pausanias, "the foster-brother of the Heracleid is no more a slave."
Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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{Greek: Túxae} of Alcman, which is, {Greek: Eunomías te kaì
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{Greek: Túxae} of Alcman, which is, {Greek: Eunomías te kaì
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi Richard Francis Burton 1855
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There is also the possibility that Fr. 125 of the Spartan poet Alcman
Alcmaeon Huffman, Carl 2008
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Homer, nor Hesiod, nor Archilochus, nor Pisander, nor Stesichorus, nor Alcman, nor Pindar, makes any mention of the Egyptian or the
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And, accordingly, when the Thebans made their invasion into Laconia, and took a great number of the Helots, they could by no means persuade them to sing the verses of Terpander, Alcman, or Spendon,
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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There died of this disease, amongst those of the most ancient times, Acastus, the son of Pelias; of later date, Alcman the poet, Pherecydes the theologian,
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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In some men the appearance of lice is a disease, in cases where the body is surcharged with moisture; and, indeed, men have been known to succumb to this louse-disease, as Alcman the poet and the Syrian Pherecydes are said to have done.
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Compare with this the language of Alcman, as the poet has represented him in the following lines.
Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch
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Alcman delights in speaking of his porridge, and Alcæus of the various implements of war which adorned his hall.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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