Pindarus, A Thebane Poet, and chiefe of them which were called Lyrici. Wherefore Alexander when he destroyed the citie of Thebes, caused the house of Pindarus to be preserued, with all his familie. An other Pindarus was a tirant of Ephesus.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Pindărus, i, m., = *pi/ndaros. I.Pindar, a celebrated lyric poet of Thebes, contemporary with Æschylus, Hor. C. 4, 2, 1; Quint. 10, 1, 61; Cic. Fin. 2, 34, 115; Sen. Q. N. 6, 26, 3.—B. Hence, 1. Pindărĕ-us, a, um, adj., Pindaric: Pindaream chelyn referre, Mart. Cap. 2, 119.—2. Pin-dărĭcus, a, um, adj., Pindaric: Camenae, Hor. C. 4, 9, 6: fons, id. Ep. 1, 3, 10: Pindaricos modos, Mart. 8, 18, 6; Ov. P. 4, 16, 28: os, Prop. 3, 15, 40: Pindaricum metrum, consisting of a trimeter brachycatalectus (e. g. medium rapido mare Tibris adit fluvio), Serv. Centimetr. p. 1822 P.— II.Name of a slave, Cic. Att. 16, 1, 5; Inscr. Murat. 619, 2.—III.The freedman who held the sword upon which Cassius fell at Philippi, Val. Max. 6, 8, 4.