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Definition of Iambics
1. iambic [n] - See also: iambic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Iambics
Literary usage of Iambics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Roman Literature: With an Introductory Dissertation on the by Henry Thompson (1852)
"There is another species of poetry of which Horace claims the iambics, or
introduction; the Iambic. The word "iambi," separately taken, ..."
2. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"In order to shame his opponents, he wrote some iambics, in which he calls on his
censors to consider of how many citizens the state would have been bereaved ..."
3. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"Its fitness for the purpose depended Wh iambics primarily on its nearness to the
rhythm ... iambics ..."
4. The Life of John Milton by Charles Symmons (1822)
"... adversary is omitted in this composition: his venality and accommodating
pliancy of opinion are even made the subjects of a sportive sally in iambics. ..."
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