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Ibycus
Ibycus was a Greek lyric poet from Rhegion in southern Italy, active in the second half of the 6th century BCE. He spent part of his career at the court of Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, and was counted among the nine canonical lyric poets of ancient Greece. His poetry survives only in fragments.
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