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Ibycus (Greek: Ἴβυκος; fl. 6th century BC) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, a citizen of Rhegium in Magna Graecia, probably active at Samos during the reign of the tyrant Polycrates and numbered by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria in the canonical list of nine lyric poets.

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Euryalus, offshoot of the blue-eyed Graces, darling of the lovely-haired Seasons, the Cyprian and soft-lidded Persuasion nursed you among rose-blossoms.

Yet again will Love eye me tenderly from beneath dark brows and cast me with manifold magic into the hopeless net of the Love-Goddess. I swear his approach makes me tremble like an old champion-horse of the chariot-race when he draws the swift car all unwillingly to the contest.

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