Lexicographical Neighbors of Paeonic
Literary usage of Paeonic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Music by John Frederick Rowbotham (1886)
"And since the Paeon was the type of the rest, the general name of paeonic Feet
was given to them, because they all observed the same ratio which the Great ..."
2. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"(344), the paeonic in Eq. 303-11 (450),1 the ionic in Ran. ... 1 Compare the long
paeonic hyper- meters in the Delphian Hymns to Apollo, published by Weil, ..."
3. Cornell Studies in Classical Philology by Cornell University (1900)
"Apparently the paeonic metre was the form in which they cast the Cretan dance
rhythm. It is rather an interesting fact that this metre found so little ..."
4. An Introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric: With Analysis, Notes and Appendices by Edward Meredith Cope (1867)
"The Cretic—"or if you prefer to call it so, the paeonic"—rhythm is illustrated
from the opening sentence of Demosthenes' speech pro Corona, ..."
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