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LASSUS

Volume 11 · 86 words · 1815 Edition

or Lasus, a dithyrambic poet, born at Hermione in Peloponnesus about 500 years before Christ. He is particularly known among the women of Greece by some. He is particularly known by the answer he gave to a man who asked him what could best render life pleasant and comfortable? Experience. He was acquainted with music. Some fragments of his poetry are to be found in Athenaeus. He wrote an ode upon the Centaurs, and a hymn to Ceres, without inserting the letter S in the composition.