Constantine Lips (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Λίψ) was a Byzantine aristocrat and admiral who lived in the later 9th and early 10th centuries. He was killed in 917 at the Battle of Acheloos against Bulgaria. He is most notable for his foundation of the convent bearing his name at Constantinople.
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“Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
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Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more.”
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