Definitions for Tyrtaeus

Tyrtaeus Tyr·tae·us

Spelling: [tur-tee-uh s]
IPA: /tɜrˈti əs/

Tyrtaeus is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 310 anagrams from letters in Tyrtaeus (aersttuy).

Definitions for Tyrtaeus

noun

  1. flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet.

Examples for Tyrtaeus

No date is given, but Lycurgus must apparently be thinking of a date prior to Tyrtaeus, as we shall see later.

It was a little lame schoolmaster, Tyrtaeus, who aroused the Spartans by his poetry and led them to victory against the foe.

The virtue of Tyrtaeus, although needful enough in his own time, is really of a fourth-rate description.

After these, excellent Homer and Tyrtaeus animated the manly mind to martial achievements with their verses.

The martial poet Tyrtaeus, and the oligarch Theognis, furnish him with happy illustrations of the two sorts of courage.

A little later Tyrtaeus was composing his famous elegies in Sparta.

The earliest of the Greek elegists, Callinus and Tyrtaeus, use elegy to rouse a warlike spirit in sinking hearts.

But he was yet something more: he could, if he pleased, be a Tyrtaeus; he was no fighter—where was there ever a poet that was?

When did man forget to rush like Tyrtaeus to the combat, a sword in one hand, the lyre in the other?

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