It is possible however that the Doric dialect was added by editors in Hellenistic and Roman times, when the poet's home town, Rhegium, had become more Doric than it had been in the poet's own time.

* Reggio Calabria, in the South, also called Reggio di Calabria or, in ancient times, Pallantion, Rhegion, Febea, Regium, Rhegium Julium, Risa, Rivah

The proverb was apparently based on an anecdote about Ibycus stupidly or nobly turning down an opportunity to become tyrant of Rhegium in order to pursue a poetic career instead ( one modern scholar however infers from his poetry that Ibycus was in fact wise enough to avoid the lure of supreme power, citing as an example Plato's quotation from one of his lyrics: " I am afraid it may be in exchange for some sin before the gods that I get honour from men ") There is no other information about Ibycus ' activities in the West, apart from an account by Himerius, that he fell from his chariot while travelling between Catana and Himera and injured his hand badly enough to give up playing the lyre " for some considerable time.

At the same time, a group of Roman troops made up of Campanian " citizens without the vote " also seized control of Rhegium, which lies across the straits on the mainland of Italy.

He removed the inhabitants of Naxos and Catana to Leontini, peopled Catana ( which he renamed Aetna ) with Dorians, concluded an alliance with Acragas ( Agrigentum ) and espoused the cause of the Locrians against Anaxilas, tyrant of Rhegium.

* Hippys * and Glaucus, both of Rhegium ; the first wrote histories of Italy and Sicily, the second a treatise on ancient poets and musicians which was used by Harpocration and Pseudo-Plutarch

Reggio di Calabria (; Sicilian-Calabrian dialect: Rìggiu, Greek-Calabrian: Righi, Greek:, Rhégion, Latin: Rhegium ), commonly known as Reggio Calabria or Reggio, is the biggest city and the most populated comune of Calabria, southern Italy, and is the capital of the Province of Reggio Calabria and seat of the Council of Calabrian government.

Later, the polis of Rhegion reached great artistic and cultural heights, as is shown by the presence of art, philosophy and science academies, such as the Pythagorean School and also for its well-known poets, historians and sculptors such Ibycus, Ippy and Pythagoras of Rhegium.

* Rome's subjugation of Italy is completed by the recapture of Rhegium ( southern Italy ) from the Mamertines and the defeat of the Brutians, the Lucanians, the Calabrians and the Samnites.

The town of Rhegium is then restored by the Romans to its Greek inhabitants.

There was a Pythagorean lawgiver of Rhegium known as Phytius, but the early 6th century is too early for this candidate also.

It is possible that he left Samos at the same time as Anacreon, on the death of Polycrates, and there is an anonymous poem in the Palatine Anthology celebrating Rhegium as his final resting place, describing a tomb located under an elm, covered in ivy and white reeds.

* A Roman garrison is sent to Rhegium.

Küçükçekmece (; ancient Rhegium ) is a large, crowded suburb on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey 23 km west of the city, on the European shore of the sea of Marmara, beyond Atatürk Airport.

While the Romans did not wish to come to the aid of soldiers who had unjustly stolen a city from its rightful possessors, and although they were still recovering from the insurrection of Campanian troops at Rhegium in 271, many were also unwilling to see Carthaginian power in Sicily expand even further.

The sons were said to have become kings: Iocastus of the region in southern Italy as far as Rhegium ; Pheraemon and Androcles of the part of Sicily between the Strait of Messina and Lilybaeum ; Xuthus of Leontini ; Agathyrnus of what was known as Agathyrnitis, having founded Agathyrnum ; and Astyochus of Lipara.

Josephus describes as Caligula's greatest contribution to have improved the harbours at Rhegium and Sicily, thereby allowing grain imports from Egypt to increase.

In 270 BC, the Romans regained control of Rhegium and severely punished the survivors of the revolt.

* Julia the Elder returns from exile to live in Rhegium in disgrace.

He conquers the city of Rhegium and advances to Naples.

The people of Rhegium planted here the exiles from Naxos and Catana in 395 BC as a counterpoise to Dionysius the Elder's foundation of Tyndaris ; but Dionysius soon took it.

As an independent city Rhegium was an important ally and " socia navalis " of Rome.

It was devastated by several major earthquakes and associated tsunami during the Roman Empire when it was called " Rhegium Julium " and was a noble Roman city.

The Apostle, St. Paul passed through Rhegium in his final voyage to Rome ( Acts XXVIII: 13 ).

" Making the best of it, the Roman army turned on Greek Rhegium and effected a massacre of Pyrrhian partisans there.

However, another line of thinking arose with Theagenes of Rhegium, who suggested that instead of taking poetry literally, what was expressed in poems were allegories of nature.

He unsuccessfully besieges Rhegium.

When Rhegium falls, Dionysius becomes the chief power in Greek Southern Italy.

* Pericles renews alliances with the Rhegium on the south west corner of Italy and Leontini in south-east Sicily, threatening Sparta's food supply route from Sicily.

Ibycus () ( floruit: 2nd half of 6th century BC ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, a citizen of Rhegium in Magna Graecia, probably active at Samos during the reign of the tyrant Polycrates and numbered by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria in the canonical list of nine lyric poets.

Much of the city still boasted intact buildings and monuments from ancient Roman times, but Boniface razed it anyway, even spreading salt on the site as the Romans did in Carthage 1500 years before.

In 1665, England boasted a population about four times as large as that of the Dutch Republic.

It boasted speeds one thousand times faster than electro-mechanical machines, a leap in computing power that no single machine has since matched.

Although the men of the tribe frequently boasted of the large animals they had killed, when pressed for details, they admitted that large animals were killed only a few times in a hunter's career.

A zealous Calvinist who boasted he had read the Bible twenty-five times, he was not a bigot and had helped the Jesuit György Káldy to translate and print his version of the Scriptures.

Despite his personal opposition to the war, Owsley boasted in his report to Marcy that the Commonwealth had raised 13, 700 volunteers, more than five times the number requested of her.

Among the group is Dennis ( Timothy Olyphant ), a photographer who often holds the group together ; Cole ( Dean Cain ) a handsome, charismatic actor who — often unwittingly — ends up with other people's boyfriends ; Benji ( Zach Braff ), the youngest member of the group, with a penchant for gym-bodied men, who finds himself going through some bad times ; Howie ( Matt McGrath ), a psychology student who is known for overthinking every situation ; Patrick ( Ben Weber ), the cynic of the group ; and Taylor ( Billy Porter ), who has long boasted about his long-term relationship, which has just come crashing to an end.

He is said to have boasted that he could recite a hundred long ' qasidas for each letter of the alphabet ( i. e. rhyming in each letter ) and these all from pre-Islamic times, apart from shorter pieces and later verses.

Harry Houdini ( who in his early years billed himself as " The King of Kards ") often boasted that if he saw a card trick performed three times in a row he would be able to figure it out.

During its boom times, Beechworth town boasted a range of industries including, a tannery, jewellers, boot makers, a brewery, blacksmiths, livestock sale yards.

Convicts in Britain had no right to sue, and Sinclair had boasted that he could not be sued by them.

Doctor Doom's style of rule can best be described as an absolute monarchy, as it was revealed that there is no legislature, and one minister boasted " Doctor Doom decides everything.

The intensity of this " war of pamphlets " was heightened severely by Corneille's boastful poem Excuse À Ariste, in which he rambled and boasted about his talents, while Corneille claimed no other author could be a rival.

He said that " none that go unto her may return "-in fact, he thanked God for having saved him from its influence, and boasted of possessing no knowledge outside the Torah.

It was never a sizeable permanent settlement and boasted almost no mercantile or retail stores.

A certain Prince who fell into this category boasted to Fabergé about his latest honour from the Tsar, adding that he had no idea as to why the award was made.

Their successors Khumma-Menanu and Shilhak-In-Shushinak II bore the simple title " king ", and the final king Tempti-Khumma-In-Shushinak boasted no title altogether.

Although the game boasted original soundtrack music by Brian May ( guitarist of Queen ), only a short intro from The Dark appeared in the final release, while the actual in-game score was done by Mirage ( in the case of the PC version, there was no in-game music at all ).

The defense of the common man led to antiparliamentatism ( Poujade called the Chamber of Deputies " the biggest brothel in Paris " and the deputies a " pile of rubbish " and " pederasts ") a strong anti-intellectualism ( Poujade denounced the graduates from École Polytechnique as the main culprits for the woes of 1950s France and boasted that he had no book learning ), xenophobia, and antisemitism especially aimed against Pierre Mendès-France ( claiming " Mendès is French only as the word added to his name "), who was perceived as responsible for the loss of Indochina.

During his lifetime, Chaney had boasted he would make it difficult for biographers to portray his life, saying that " between pictures, there is no Lon Chaney.

In a speech before a group of German journalists on January 13, 1933, Schleicher boasted about how based how the acceptance " in principle " of gleichberechtigung by the other powers at the World Disarmament Conference in December 1932 that he planned to have by no later than the spring of 1934 a return to conscription and to Germany having all the weapons forbidden by Versailles.

Karitoki boasted to his friends about his beautiful wife, but no one believed him because they had never seen her.

Edgar Allan Poe famously, and rashly, boasted that no cipher could defeat his cryptanalytic talents ( essentially frequency analysis ); that he was almost entirely correct about the ciphertexts submitted to him suggests a low level of cryptographic awareness some 400 (!

The Met never boasted fancy amenities, and by comparison to modern arenas it had cramped concourses, no luxury suites, and very few frills.

In its heyday, the Priory estate boasted no fewer than 20 gardeners.

The little township was a pioneer in several by-laws ; it boasted the first sanitation regulations on record ( no privies near the public path, drains to be dug and places kept weeded ) and the first price controls in the only hostelry in town.

Historian John Day notes that records show most Trained Band casualties were hit in the head, while a survivor boasted that the artillery " did us no harm, only the shot broke our pikes "; evidently, in the heat of battle, the Royalist artillery were firing too high.

Approaching his sixtieth year, he boasted that no person had succeeded in knowing him as an integral personality: " I have spent my life alone, utterly alone, and no biography of me could ever more than scratch the surface.

In his book, The Cases That Haunt Us, former FBI profiler John Douglas states that a paranoid individual such as Konsminski would likely have openly boasted of the murders while incarcerated had he been the killer, but there is no record that he ever did so.

According to the television series Green Acres, Pixley comically boasted several things that no small farm town in America would have.

Nicoya was one such Indian town and in the 1760s boasted no more than about 320 inhabitants ( ANCR Exp.

Of the hundreds of pieces he showed, Ohr boasted " no two alike.