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Definition of Scazon

Scazon
Scazon Sca"zon, n. [L., fr. Gr. ska`zwn, fr. ska`zein to limp.] (Lat. Pros.) A choliamb.

Meaning of Scazon 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 Gr****...
- using as his favourite metres the Phalaecian hendecasyllable, choliambs (scazons), and elegiac couplets. Several people are addressed or mentioned in more...
- written in either hendecasyllables or elegiac couplets, with a few also in scazons. Many of the epigrams are written as though they were to be engraved on...
- rhythmical prose; Theocritus uses the hexameter and Doric, Herodas the scazon or "lame" iambic (with a dragging spondee at the end) and the old Ionic...
- catalectic (in Latin also known as Iambic septenarius) Choliambic (also known as Scazon), a variation on the Iambic trimeter These are not the only stichic metres...
- Herodas. Persius's satires are composed in hexameters, except for the scazons of the short prologue above referred to. The first satire censures the...
- three metres that she wrote in: hendecasyllables, iambic trimeters, and scazons. It is unclear why the poem imitated Sulpicia, as she is otherwise only...
- Hipponax (about 540 BCE). The invention of the satyric iambic verse called Scazon is ascribed to him as well as to Hipponax. Some fragments of Ananius are...
- 1846) - low-rib ark Barbatia revelata (Deshayes in Maillard, 1863) Barbatia scazon (Iredale, 1939, 1939) Barbatia sculpturata Turton, 1932 Barbatia setigera...
- name choliambics means lame iambics and sometimes the meter is called scazons or limpers. ("Lame trochaics" exist as well, being a trochaic tetrameter...