Definition of Asclepiads

1. asclepiad [n] - See also: asclepiad

Lexicographical Neighbors of Asclepiads

ascience
ascient
ascigerous
asciibetically
ascites
ascites adiposus
ascites in neonates
ascitic
ascitic agar
ascitic fluid
ascitic tumour
ascititious
ascitogenous
asclepiad
asclepiadaceous
asclepiads (current term)
asclepias
ascocarp
ascocarpic
ascocarpous
ascocarps
ascococci
ascococcus
ascogenous
ascogonia
ascogonium
ascolichen
ascoma
ascomata
ascomycete

Literary usage of Asclepiads

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

1. The Classics, Greek & Latin: The Most Celebrated Works of Hellenic and Roman by Marion Mills Miller (1910)
"Galiani, Italian author: admirer of Horace, L. iii. 12. Galen, Greek physician: on medical training of "asclepiads," G. iv. 225; on Hippocrates, vi. ..."

2. The Odes and Secular Hymn of Horace by Horace, Warren H. Cudworth (1917)
"The seven Fourth asclepiads (odes written in the measure of i, ... The three First asclepiads (odes like i, 1) have been put into rimed heroic couplets, ..."

3. Poets of the Younger Generation by William Archer (1902)
"Nor does the wonder entirely vanish when we realise that Mr. Newbolt is here experimenting in classic prosody and writing asclepiads. ..."

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