Living Poets

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{{#lemma: Idem|''idem'' m: ''item'' m}} Pindari vatis familiae penatibusque iussit parci, cum Thebas raperet.
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The very same Alexander the Great ordered that the household and home of the poet Pindar be spared, when he sacked Thebes.
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