Definition of Choliambic. Meaning of Choliambic. Synonyms of Choliambic

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Definition of Choliambic

Choliambic
Choliamb Cho"li*amb, Choliambic Cho`li*am"bic, n. [L. choliambus, Gr. ?; ? lame + ? an iambus.] (Pros.) A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.

Meaning of Choliambic from wikipedia

- Choliambic verse (Ancient Gr****: χωλίαμβος), also known as limping iambs or scazons or halting iambic, is a form of meter in poetry. It is found in both...
- Catullus 8 is a Latin poem of nineteen lines in choliambic metre by the Roman poet Catullus, known by its incipit, Miser Catulle. The speaker, somewhat...
- used unconventionally as a window into the female psyche. Canobus: three choliambic verses were quoted by Steph**** Byzantius from a poem of this title, and...
- some 160 fables in choliambic verse. Current opinion is that he lived in the 1st century CE. The version of 55 fables in choliambic tetrameters by the...
- This meter was originated by the Gr**** iambic poet, Hipponax. The name choliambics means lame iambics and sometimes the meter is called scazons or limpers...
- century CE. At about the same time Babrius turned the fables into Gr**** choliambics. A 3rd-century author, Titi****, is said to have rendered the fables...
- native of Samos. He is mentioned by Athenaeus, who has preserved some choliambic verses of his, in which he defends the Samian Philaenis, claiming that...
- alphabetically, but break off at the letter O. The fables are written in choliambic, that is, limping or imperfect iambic verse, having a spondee as the last...
- Rufulum fellat choliambic 5 Invective Adultery and graverobbing Rufa and Rufulus 60 Latin English Num te leaena montibus Libystinis choliambic 5 Invective...
- (Solvitur acris hiems). Egnatius appears in poems 37 and 39, both in the choliambic (scazon) metre. Egnatius is apparently a Celtiberian from Spain. In poem...