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en-wikipedia-org-1632		Mimnermus - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3227	269	68	Mimnermus was one of several ancient, Greek poets who composed verses about solar eclipses, and there was a total solar eclipse of his home town, Smyrna, on April 6, 648 BC[1] His poetry survives only as a few fragments yet they afford us a glimpse of his "brilliantly vivid" style.[2] Plutarch was another ancient author critical of the poet's self-indulgence, dismissing one poem (see Fragment 1 in Poetic style below) as "the utterances of intemperate people."[10] Mimnermus however was not timid in his hedonism, as indicated by a couplet attributed to him in the Palatine Anthology, an exhortation to others to live intemperately: "Enjoy yourself. Unlike epic and lyric verse, which were accompanied by stringed instruments (the cithara and barbiton respectively), elegy was accompanied by a wind instrument (the aulos) and its performance therefore required at least two people—one to sing and one to play.[23] Ancient accounts associate Mimnermus with a female aulos player, Nanno, and one makes him her lover (see quote from Hermesianax in Comments by other poets below).	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1632.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1632.txt