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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 226 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IBYCUS , of Rhegium in See also:

Italy, See also:Greek lyric poet, contemporary of See also:Anacreon, flourished in the 6th See also:century B.C. Notwithstanding his See also:good position at See also:home, he lived a wandering See also:life, and spent a considerable See also:time at the See also:court of See also:Polycrates, See also:tyrant of See also:Samos. The See also:story of his See also:death is thus related: While in the See also:neighbour-See also:hood of See also:Corinth, the poet was mortally wounded by robbers. As he See also:lay dying he saw a See also:flock of See also:cranes flying overhead, and called upon them to avenge his death. The murderers betook themselves to Corinth, and soon after, while sitting in the See also:theatre, saw the cranes hovering above. One of them, either in alarm or jest, ejaculated, "Behold the See also:avengers of Ibycus," and thus gave the See also:clue to the detection of the See also:crime (See also:Plutarch, De Garrulitale, xiv.). The phrase, " the cranes of Ibycus," passed into a See also:proverb among the Greeks for the See also:discovery of crime through divine intervention. According to Suidas, Ibycus wrote seven books of lyrics, to some extent mythical and heroic, but mainly erotic (See also:Cicero, Tusc. Disp. iv. 33), celebrating the charms of beautiful youths and girls. F. G.

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Welcker suggests that they were sung by choruses of boys at the " beauty competitions " held at See also:Lesbos. Although the See also:metre and See also:dialect are Dorian, the poems breathe the spirit of Aeolian melic See also:poetry. The best See also:editions of the fragments are by F. W. See also:Schneidewin (1833) and See also:Bergk, Poetae lyrici Graeci.

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