And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

Inscriptions found on orthostats from the sanctuary include quoted verses and historical records. The father is said to have betrothed his daughter Neobule to Archilochus but reneged on the agreement and the poet retaliated with such eloquent abuse that Lycambes Neobule and one or both of his other daughters committed suicide. 645 BC) was a Greek lyric poet from the island of Paros in the Archaic period.

Archilochus or Archilochos (Greek: Ἀρχίλοχος) (c. However modern critics often characterize him simply as a lyric poet. 645 BC) was a Greek lyric poet from the island of Paros in the Archaic period.