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  • proper noun An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a 7th century Ancient Greek poet from Ephesus,

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek Καλλῖνος (Kallinos).

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Examples

  • Callinus, an Ephesian of the latter part of the eighth century

    Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson

  • But the war - chants of Callinus and Tyrtaeus, and the political poems of the latter, are at least fifty years earlier in date than the elegies of

    Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

  • Are you counting upon Atticus and Callinus, the copyists, to put in

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

  • And supposing even that you had managed to pick out such veritable treasures as the exquisite editions of Callinus, or those of the far-famed Atticus, most conscientious of publishers, -- what does it profit you?

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

  • Young and noble lads were they who marched forth to the struggle, equipped like the Helleman soldiers of the palmy days of Athens; and as they went they sang a battle-song of Callinus which some one -- who, no one could tell -- had slightly altered for the occasion:

    Serapis — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Young and noble lads were they who marched forth to the struggle, equipped like the Helleman soldiers of the palmy days of Athens; and as they went they sang a battle-song of Callinus which some one -- who, no one could tell -- had slightly altered for the occasion:

    Serapis — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Young and noble lads were they who marched forth to the struggle, equipped like the Helleman soldiers of the palmy days of Athens; and as they went they sang a battle-song of Callinus which some one -- who, no one could tell -- had slightly altered for the occasion:

    Serapis — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • Young and noble lads were they who marched forth to the struggle, equipped like the Helleman soldiers of the palmy days of Athens; and as they went they sang a battle-song of Callinus which some one -- who, no one could tell -- had slightly altered for the occasion:

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • Young and noble lads were they who marched forth to the struggle, equipped like the Helleman soldiers of the palmy days of Athens; and as they went they sang a battle-song of Callinus which some one -- who, no one could tell -- had slightly altered for the occasion:

    Serapis — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Callinus, the Ephesian, made a religion of patriotism.

    Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849

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