Archilŏchus

, a poet of Paros; who wrote elegies, satires, odes, and epigrams, and was the first who introduced iambics in his verses. He had courted Neobule the daughter of Lycambes, and had received promises of marriage; but the father gave her to another superior to the poet in rank and fortune; upon which Archil och us wrote such a bitter satire, that Lycambes hanged himself in a fit of despair. The Spartans condemned his verses on account of their indelicacy, and banished him from their city as a petulant and dangerous citizen. He flourished 685 B.C., and it is said that he was a a inated. Some fragments of his poetry remain, which display vigour and animation, boldne and vehemence, in the highest degree; from which reason, perhaps, Cicero calls virulent edicts, Arch i lochia edict a . Cicero , Tusculanæ Dis put at i ones , bk. 1 .— Quintilian , bk. 10 , ch. 1 .— Hero dot us , bk. 1 , ch. 12 .— Horace , Art of Poetry , li. 79 .— Athenæus , bks. 1, 2, . ――A son of Nestor, killed by Memnon in the Trojan war. Homer , Iliad , bk. 2 .――A Greek historian who wrote a chronological table, and other works, about the 20th or 30th olympiad.