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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...
- 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...
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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...
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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...
- 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...
- the Suda, and also by Tzetzes. As he was also a
writer of
iambics and
choliambics, many
scholars have
supposed him to be
identical with the
Aeschrion from...
- 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...
- (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...
- Odours.
Concerning Weather Signs L225) Characters. Mimes.
Cercidas and the
Choliambic Poets L225N) Characters. Herodas, Mimes.
Sophron and
Other Mime Fragments...
- 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...
