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Definition of Choliamb
1. n. A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.
Definition of Choliamb
1. a verse or prose pattern [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Choliamb
Literary usage of Choliamb
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Corpus paroemiographorum graecorum by Ernst von Leutsch, Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin (1851)
"... de choliamb. 176. 4. i'd'f ni>y «pi/a; Ds. 6. // Suidas ; cf. infr. 81.
Suidas explicat : í. ..."
2. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1898)
"... (perhaps choliamb) I 6 59.3 (early) statuerunt. Of course hardly to be called
a " false " quantity. 6 f) Iambic Shortening. With the exception of iambi ..."
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