"He began his poetical career at the age of twenty, with an ode on a Thessalian youth's victory in the games. He grew to be the national lyrist of Greece. It is a sign of the coming time that he also pays his homage to Athens,—"the bulwark of Hellas," the city that "laid the foundation of freedom.""
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Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Greek Literature (1877), p. 65
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