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Definition of Epitrite
1. n. A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.
Definition of Epitrite
1. Noun. (poetry Ancient Greek and Latin prosody) A metrical foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable. ¹
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Definition of Epitrite
1. a poetic rhythm pattern [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epitrite
Literary usage of Epitrite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Res Metrica: An Introduction to the Study of Greek & Roman Versification by William Ross Hardie (1920)
"The type of metre which has often been called ' dactylo-epitrite' consisted, on
that theory, of separate short groups of dactyls, interspersed with the ..."
2. Sophocles: the plays and fragments, ed. with Engl. notes and intr. by L by Sophocles (1879)
"... solemnity of the prevailing di- excited hope, which changes, in line 7 of
trochaic (or epitrite) rhythm is relieved the strophe, into pious aspiration. ..."
3. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1890)
"There is one variation of the epitrite so beautifully employed by Pindar that I
cannot help pausing to remark upon it though it is not germane to the matter ..."
4. Studies in Honor of Basil L. Gildersleeve by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (1902)
"6, 2 and 22, 2, which might be taken as dactylo-epitrite, especially the former
... been an epitrite line ; if so, we have syncopation of the last two feet. ..."
5. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1880)
"First epitrite, iambus and spondee, ... Second epitrite, trochee and spondee,
... Fourth epitrite, spondee and trochee, ..."
6. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"but the short syllable of the epitrite, which was ' irrational," that of one and
... Westphal varied this by giving the trochee of the epitrite the value of ..."
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