Lexicographical Neighbors of Paeonics
Literary usage of Paeonics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetry as a Representative Art: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1899)
"... corresponding to Compound Stress—Its Classic Forms—Its Use in Greek paeonics—In
Pathos, corresponding to Tremulous Stress—Terminal Triple Measure—Can ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"paeonics are propagated by division of the root clusters, in the case of the
herbaceous forms, and by cuttings of tlie young wood, or toy layering, ..."
3. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1916)
"In connection with paeonics the author seems not to mention the interesting fact
that, according to a scholiast, Heliodorus commended ..."
4. Res Metrica: An Introduction to the Study of Greek & Roman Versification by William Ross Hardie (1920)
"... explained away paeonics as trochees with syncopation (- w i— , i_ www, &c., six
times, not five). The discovery of the Delphic hymns helped to establish ..."
5. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"But they maintained that in such series as are quoted above from Aristophanes
the trochaic metres were reduced to the value of paeonics. ..."
6. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"A large family, chiefly herbaceous, of no great economic use but often becoming
troublesome weeds; the paeonics and virgin's bowers are largely planted. ..."
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