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Definition of Dipodies
1. dipody [n] - See also: dipody
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dipodies
Literary usage of Dipodies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grammar of the Greek Language: For the Use of High Schools and Colleges by Raphael Kühner (1872)
"... verses are not measured by singl« fuet, but by dipodies, or pairs of feet,
two feet being necessary to make an independent metre or ..."
2. Greek lyric poetry: a complete collection of the surviving passages from the by George Stanley Farnell (1891)
"These have the same time-value as choreic dipodies, but apparently express a slower
... I pass on now to two other well-known classes of dipodies, ..."
3. The Metres of the Greeks and Romans: A Manual for Schools and Private Study by Eduard Munk (1844)
"By various modifications, however, it is made sometimes more forcible and grave,
sometimes weaker and lighter. If the rhythm is arranged by dipodies, then, ..."
4. The Essentials of Latin Grammar by Francis Adelbert Blackburn (1883)
"A verse is a set of feet or dipodies, recurring regularly, and forming a " line"
of poetry. Verses are named from their fundamental foot, ..."
5. A Latin Grammar for the Use of Schools by Johan Nikolai Madvig, George Woods, Thomas Anthony Thacher (1892)
"A tribrach may stand everywhere instead of the trochee, and in the even places (2,
4, 6, the last in the dipodies) a spondee. Nulla vox humana constat ..."
6. A Latin Grammar for the Use of Schools by Johan Nikolai Madvig (1888)
"A tribrach may stand everywhere instead of the trochee, and in the even places (2,
4, 6, the last in the dipodies) a spondee. Nulla vox humana constat ..."
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