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Definition: Alcaeus |
AlcaeusNoun1. Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; reputed inventor of Alcaic verse (611-580 BC). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Alcaeus" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a strength". |
Date "Alcaeus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Crosswords: Alcaeus |
| English words defined with "Alcaeus": Alcaic, Alcaic verse. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Alcaeus (ALKAIOS), Greek lyric poet, an older contemporary of Sappho, was a native of Mytilene in Lesbos and flourished about 600 b.c. His life was greatly mixed up with the political disputes and internal feuds of his native city. He belonged to one of the noble families, and sided with his class against the "tyrants" who at that time set themselves up in Mytilene. He was in consequence obliged to leave his native country, and spent a considerable time in exile. He is said to have become reconciled to Pittacus, the ruler set up by the popular party, and to have returned to Lesbos. The date of his death is unknown. The subjects of his poems, which were composed in the Aeolic dialect, were of various kinds: some were hymns to the gods; others were of a martial or political character; others breathed an ardent love of liberty and hatred of tyrants; lastly, some were love-songs. Alcaeus was allotted the second place among the nine lyric poets in the Alexandrian canon. The considerable number of fragments extant, and the well-known imitations of Horace, who regarded Alcaeus as his great model, enable us to form a fair idea of the character of his poems. A new fragment has recently been discovered, together with some fragments of Sappho (Classical Review, May 1902).
See Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci (1882); also ''The Songs of Alcaeus,'' by J. Easby-Smith (Washington, 1901); Plehn, Lesbiacorum Liber (1826); Flach, ''Geschichte der griechischen Lyrik (1883-1884); Farnell, Greek Lyric Poets'' (1891).
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Clever | Wine is a peep-hole on a man. (references; author: Alcaeus) | |
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Alcaeus | Wine is a peep-hole on a man. |
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| "Alcaeus" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Alcaeus" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
alcaeus | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Alcaeus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | Αλκαίοσ. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | alcaeusay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-s-u" | |
-1 letter: calesa, casual, caules, causal, clause. | |
-2 letters: alecs, cauls, cause, clues, laces, luces, sauce, scale. | |
-3 letters: aals, aces, alae, alas, alec, ales, asea, casa, case, caul, cels, clue, cues, ecus, lace, lacs, lase, leas, luce, lues, sale, saul, seal, slue. | |
-4 letters: aal, aas, ace, ala, ale, als, cel, cue, eau, ecu, els, lac, las, lea. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-s-u" | |
+1 letter: acaulose, caesural, causable, scapulae. | |
+2 letters: aspectual, calcaneus, canulates, coagulase, eulachans, jaculates, maculates, sacculate. | |
+3 letters: acephalous, acidulates, actualizes, alliaceous, ambulances, applesauce, auscultate, autoclaves, calcareous, calculates, calendulas, capsulated, casualness, casualties, catalogues, caterwauls, coagulases, coagulates, curtalaxes, ejaculates, emasculate, guacamoles, sacculated, trabeculas, unbalances, unscalable. | |
+4 letters: acaulescent, accumulates, acetabulums, actualities, animalcules, applesauces, articulates, auscultated, auscultates, calumniates, camouflages, cantaloupes, capitulates, cartularies, catafalques, cataloguers, causalities, causatively, ejaculators, emasculated, emasculates, emasculator, encapsulate, factualness, fasciculate, outbalances, purchasable, quacksalver, solanaceous, spectacular, unescapable, vasculature, vernaculars, vulcanisate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 63 61 65 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. -.-. .- . ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01100011 01100001 01100101 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l c a e u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 0063 0061 0065 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35786967718785 |
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