- Look up
Asclepiad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Asclepiad may
refer to: A
plant of the
former family Asclepiadaceae Asclepiad (poetry), a type of...
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Asclepiad (Gr****: Ἀσκληπιάδης, pl.: Ἀσκληπιάδαι) was a
title borne by many
Ancient Gr****
medical doctors,
notably Hippocrates of Kos. It is not clear...
- lines, the
asclepiad is
built around a choriamb. The
Asclepiad may be
described as a
glyconic that has been
expanded with one (Lesser
Asclepiad) or two (Greater...
- lack of loyalty. The fact that the rare
metre of this poem, the
greater asclepiad, was also used by
Horace in Odes 1.18,
addressed to a Varus, has suggested...
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refer to "
Asclepiad systems".
Altogether the
various asclepiad metres are used in 34 odes. 1st
Asclepiad (a
continuous series of
lesser asclepiad lines used...
- The
Asclepiad was a
quarterly medical journal published and
edited by the
British physician and
medical historian Benjamin Ward
Richardson in 1861 and...
- u – u – The
glyconic can also be
expanded into the
lesser and
greater asclepiad lines: x x – u u – – u u – u – x x – u u – – u u – – u u – u – By expanding...
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Trochaic septenarius Hendecasyllable Choliamb Aeolic verse Choriamb Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry)
Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic...
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expansion ("juxtaposition" of
additional choriambs). For example, an
Asclepiad may be
analyzed as a
glyconic with
choriambic expansion (glc, gl2c), and...
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Trochaic septenarius Hendecasyllable Choliamb Aeolic verse Choriamb Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry)
Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic...
