Definition of Paeonic

1. paeon [n -S] - See also: paeon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paeonic

paedos
paella
paellalike
paellas
paellera
paelleras
paenula
paenulae
paenulas
paenultima law
paeon
paeonic (current term)
paeonics
paeonies
paeonine
paeons
paeony
paesan
paesani
paesano
paesanos
paesans
pagan
pagan religion
pagandom
pagandoms

Literary usage of Paeonic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Music by John Frederick Rowbotham (1886)
"And since the Paeon was the type of the rest, the general name of paeonic Feet was given to them, because they all observed the same ratio which the Great ..."

2. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"(344), the paeonic in Eq. 303-11 (450),1 the ionic in Ran. ... 1 Compare the long paeonic hyper- meters in the Delphian Hymns to Apollo, published by Weil, ..."

3. Cornell Studies in Classical Philology by Cornell University (1900)
"Apparently the paeonic metre was the form in which they cast the Cretan dance rhythm. It is rather an interesting fact that this metre found so little ..."

4. An Introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric: With Analysis, Notes and Appendices by Edward Meredith Cope (1867)
"The Cretic—"or if you prefer to call it so, the paeonic"—rhythm is illustrated from the opening sentence of Demosthenes' speech pro Corona, ..."

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