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Definition of Tribrachs
1. tribrach [n] - See also: tribrach
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tribrachs
Literary usage of Tribrachs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1909)
"The difference in distribution is marked in i and iv. In Menander the tribrachs
in i outnumber those in Aristophanes (the ..."
2. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"The total number of tribrachs is 2654, on the average 1 in 3'33 ... tribrachs
contained in one word (102) number 857, 32'3 per cent of the total number of ..."
3. Studies in Honor of Basil L. Gildersleeve by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (1902)
"... he rarely uses tribrachs (in most cases there is a difference of opinion as
to the arrangement of the lines); still less two dactyls, Sept. c. Theb. ..."
4. The Classical Journal (1828)
"Not so when two tribrachs follow each other, the concurrence of so many short
syllables not being too consistent with the iambic character, ..."
5. An Introduction to Greek Verse Composition with Exercises by Arthur Sidgwick, Francis David Morice (1885)
"We will give a few more examples of wrongly divided tribrachs, as beginners often
... fiev would be admissible as tribrachs, since there is no real break. ..."
6. The Oedipus tyrannus of Sophocles by Sophocles, Mortimer Lamson Earle (1901)
"... and Philoctetes the dactyls and tribrachs are pretty evenly balanced. ...
the tribrachs are strikingly few. The opinion quite commonly held by scholars ..."
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