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Definition of Iambi

Iambi
Iambus I*am"bus, n.; pl. L. Iambi, E. Iambuses. [L. iambus, Gr. ?; prob. akin to ? to throw, assail (the iambus being first used in satiric poetry), and to L. jacere to throw. Cf. Jet a shooting forth.] (Pros.) A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in [a^]m[=a]ns, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.

Meaning of Iambi from wikipedia

- distinction between [ɾ] and [l]) is a Bantu language spoken by the Nilamba and Iambi people of the Iramba District in the Singida Region of Tanzania. Forms of...
- The Epodes (Latin: Epodi or Epodon liber; also called Iambi) are a collection of iambic poems written by the Roman poet Horace. They were published in...
- were found among the Oxyrhynchus papyruses and published in volume II of Iambi et Elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati by M. L. West. Due to the Margites...
- Company (June 1, 1987). ISBN 978-0-941051-00-2. Callimachus, Musaeus, Aetia, Iambi, Hecale and Other Fragments, Hero and Leander, edited and translated by...
- Trypanis, C. A., Gelzer, Thomas; Whitman, Cedric, CALLIMACHUS, MUSAEUS, Aetia, Iambi, Hecale and Other Fragments. Hero and Leander, Harvard University Press...
- 2008. ISBN 978-90-04-16473-4. LCCN 2008-5742. Callimachus, Musaeus, Aetia, Iambi, Hecale and Other Fragments, Hero and Leander, edited and translated by...
- metrical type. Iambic metre took its name from being characteristic of iambi, not vice versa. In accentual-syllabic verse and in modern linguistics an...
- June 1987). ISBN 978-0-941051-00-2. Internet Archive. Callimachus, Aetia. Iambi. Lyric Poems, edited and translated by Dee L. Clayman, Loeb classical Library...
- Online version at the ****us Digital Library. Callimachus, Musaeus, Aetia, Iambi, Hecale and Other Fragments, Hero and Leander, edited and translated by...
- formation. In the first poem of Horace's Epodes (which were also known as Iambi 'iambics'), the first two lines begin ibis ... amice, and it has been suggested...