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MIMNERMUS of See also:Colophon, See also:Greek elegiac poet, flourished about 63o-600 B.C. His See also:life See also:fell in the troubled See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time when the Ionic cities of See also:Asia See also:Minor were struggling to maintain themselves against the rising See also:power of the Lydian See also:kings. One of the extant fragments of his poems refers to this struggle, and contrasts the See also:present effeminacy of his countrymen with the bravery of those who had once defeated the Lydian See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king See also:Gyges. But his most important poems were a set of elegies addressed to a See also:flute-player named Nanno, collected in two books called after her name. Mimnermus was the first to make the elegiac See also:verse the vehicle for love-See also:poetry. He set his own poems to the See also:music of the flute, and the poet Hipponax says that he used the See also:melancholy vbµos epains, "the fig-See also:branch See also:strain," said to be a See also:peculiar See also:melody, to the See also:accompaniment of which two human purificatory victims were led out of See also:Athens to be sacrificed during the festival of See also:Thargelia (See also:Hesychius, s.v.).
Edition of fragments in T. See also:Bergk, Poetae lyrici Graeci; see also G. Vanzolini, Mimnermo (1883), a study of the poet, with notes and a metrical version of the fragments.
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