Definitions

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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Trochilidae.
  • proper noun An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a 7th century Archaic or a Classical Greek poet.

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  • noun a genus of Trochilidae

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek Ἀρχίλοχος (Arkhilokhos).

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Examples

  • A young girl holding a myrtle branch in Archilochus survives in

    Odysseus Elytis - Nobel Lecture 1979

  • It is enough to name Archilochus, whom Mahaffy terms the Swift of Greek Literature, Simonides of Amorgos (circ.

    English Satires Various 1885

  • Beautifully engineered hyperlink-like narrative coincidences take the reader from London's present-day dwindling hedgehog population to the seventh-century lyric poet Archilochus -- "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing, as Archilochus said, but what was it?"

    Janet Byrne: Nicole Krauss's 'Great House' Reviewed Janet Byrne 2010

  • Back in 1953, British philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously laid out two opposing styles of leadership -- hedgehogs and foxes -- taking his cue from a line in an ancient Greek poem by Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."

    Arianna Huffington: Why America Is Deeply in Need of a Good Hedgehog Arianna Huffington 2011

  • Back in 1953, British philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously laid out two opposing styles of leadership -- hedgehogs and foxes -- taking his cue from a line in an ancient Greek poem by Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."

    Arianna Huffington: Why America Is Deeply in Need of a Good Hedgehog Arianna Huffington 2011

  • Back in 1953, British philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously laid out two opposing styles of leadership -- hedgehogs and foxes -- taking his cue from a line in an ancient Greek poem by Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."

    Arianna Huffington: Why America Is Deeply in Need of a Good Hedgehog Arianna Huffington 2011

  • Beautifully engineered hyperlink-like narrative coincidences take the reader from London's present-day dwindling hedgehog population to the seventh-century lyric poet Archilochus -- "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing, as Archilochus said, but what was it?"

    Janet Byrne: Nicole Krauss's 'Great House' Reviewed Janet Byrne 2010

  • Back in 1953, British philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously laid out two opposing styles of leadership -- hedgehogs and foxes -- taking his cue from a line in an ancient Greek poem by Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."

    Arianna Huffington: Why America Is Deeply in Need of a Good Hedgehog Arianna Huffington 2011

  • Archilochus, the Greek fabulist, once said, "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."

    Handicapping Apple, Facebook And Google 2010

  • As long as we're upping the stakes here, I sure wish somebody would return the Library of Alexandria that I loaned out, along with the complete works of Archilochus and Sappho.

    Making Light: Universal Lending Library Amnesty Thread 2010

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