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Definition of Paeons
1. paeon [n] - See also: paeon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paeons
Literary usage of Paeons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Grecian Drama: A Treatise on the Dramatic Literature of the Greeks by John Richard Darley, Aristotle (1840)
"And, in truth, the numbers of the two kinds are most different, for the paeons
have only one arsis joined with a thesis of three short syllables, ..."
2. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"With one exception (Ach. 984) the tetrameter in Aristophanes consists of three
paeons and a cretic. The same form occurs also in Eupol. 160, Ar. frag. ..."
3. Greek Lyric Poetry: A Complete Collection of the Surviving Passages from the by George Stanley Farnell (1891)
"... sound to us strange and unnatural, although indeed the rhythm is still
intelligible to us ; and when we come to paeons, and still more to ..."
4. A History of Music by John Frederick Rowbotham (1886)
"... like ist paeons, .. &c. And the reason of this was that the accent did not
necessarily fall on the first place in the bar, as it does with us, ..."
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