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-Pigres:—A Carian of Halicarnassus, brother of the Artemisia who was so famous in the wars.1 He inserted an elegiac (pentameter) after each line of the Iliad, thus:+Pigres:—A Carian of Halicarnassus, brother of the Artemisia who was so famous in the wars.1 He inserted an elegiac (pentameter) after each line of the Iliad, thus:
  
-Sing thou the wrath, O Goddess, of Peleus' off-spring Achilles, Thine are the bounds which hold, Muse, all the ends of our art.+//Sing thou the wrath, O Goddess, of Peleus' off-spring Achilles, Thine are the bounds which hold, Muse, all the ends of our art.//
                  
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 He also wrote the Margites and the Battle of Frogs and Mice , attributed to Homer. He also wrote the Margites and the Battle of Frogs and Mice , attributed to Homer.
  
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 Suidas Lexicon Suidas Lexicon
  
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-“In his account of the battle of Salamis he spends more words upon Artemisia than he does on the whole battle; and lastly at Plataea he says that the Greeks sat still, and knew no more of the fight till it was over than if it had been a battle of frogs and mice like that described in a burlesque poem by Artemisia's brother Pigres; for they had agreed, he says, to fight in silence lest the others should hear them; and he makes the Spartans show themselves no better than the Barbarians in valour, but win a victory over naked and unarmed men.” Plutarch The Malignity of Herodotus+“In his account of the battle of Salamis he spends more words upon Artemisia than he does on the whole battle; and lastly at Plataea he says that the Greeks sat still, and knew no more of the fight till it was over than if it had been a battle of frogs and mice like that described in a burlesque poem by Artemisia's brother Pigres; for they had agreed, he says, to fight in silence lest the others should hear them; and he makes the Spartans show themselves no better than the Barbarians in valour, but win a victory over naked and unarmed men.”  
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 +Plutarch The Malignity of Herodotus
  
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