Antara, or ANTAR, a celebrated Arab chief in the middle of the 6th century, one of the seven poets whose prize-poems were hung up on the Kaaba, and thence called Moallakât. See ARABIAN LANGUAGE, p. 365.
Antara
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 304
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