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Pin·dar

(pĭn′dər) 522?-443? bc.
Greek lyric poet remembered especially for his odes celebrating victorious athletes.
Pin·dar′ic (-dăr′ĭk) adj.
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Pindar

(ˈpɪndə)
n
(Biography) ?518–?438 bc, Greek lyric poet, noted for his Epinikia, odes commemorating victories in the Greek games
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Pin•dar

(ˈpɪn dər)

n.
522?–443? B.C., Greek poet.
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Pindar

Regional term for peanut. Apparently, the term was not much used past the nineteenth century.
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Pindar

[ˈpɪndəʳ] N → Píndaro
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References in classic literature ?
Mynniscus used to call Callippides 'ape' on account of the extravagance of his action, and the same view was held of Pindarus. Tragic art, then, as a whole, stands to Epic in the same relation as the younger to the elder actors.
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At Philippi things do not go well for the forces of Brutus and Cassius, as indicated by Cassius seeing in the distance his burning tents, a troubling sign (5.3.13) that implies defeat, and prompts Cassius to have Pindarus stab him, leading eventually to the suicides of Titinius and Brutus (5.4).
Shakespeare's Intents in Tents
If Pindarus were alive today he would have accused Pindaru (the Nicosia street where DISY headquarters are located) of opportunism and would probably have written at least one poem about the lax political ethics of our country.
The masters of contradiction
'n Kleiner, meer filologiese probleem is die inkonsekwente spelling van Griekse eiename: so vind ons byvoorbeeld Heraklitos in plaas van Herakleitos; Plutarchus, Pindarus, Glaukus en Hesiodus naas Homeros, Philoktetos en Priamos.
Fragmente uit die Ilias
At Cassius's killing by Pindarus, stabbed, as he says, "Even with the sword that killed [Caesar]" (5.3.46), Caesar touched his head with clay, left the knife by his side, and then withdrew to the perimeter.
The 2011 Oregon Shakespeare festival
Listed with "Phedrus Volaterranus" (Tommaso Inghirami), "Beroaldus Iunior Bononiensis" (Filippo Beroaldo the Younger), "Ioannes Lascares," "Aegidius Cardinalis" (i.e., Giles of Viterbo), "Bembus Cardinalis," "Sadoletus Cardinalis," and "Faustus Magdalena," among many others, are "Baptista Casalius Romanus," "Pindarus" (i.e., Santesio), "Andreas Maro" (i.e., Marone), and "Franciscus Sperulus."
Informal academies and music in Pope Leo X's Rome
Cannata Fera, M.: Pindarus. Threnorum fragmenta, Roma, Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1990.
Aion, khronos, Zeitlichkeit. ?Que tiempo originario?
When he sends one of his lieutenants, Titinius, to determine whether the forces in the distance are friend or foe, he has another follower, Pindarus, view the results.
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Erasmus's De Copia, and sentential ambiguity