Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

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.