- ALCÆ`US OF MITYLENE
- a Greek lyric poet, an aristocrat by birth, a contemporary and an alleged lover of Sappho, and much admired by Horace; flourished about 600 B.C.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
ALCÆ`US OF MITYLENE
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