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Definition of Tripodies
1. tripody [n] - See also: tripody
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tripodies
Literary usage of Tripodies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Greek Grammar by William Watson Goodwin (1896)
"When trochaic or iambic verses are measured by single feet, they are called
tripodies, ... tripodies ..."
2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"... of the same number of feet is repeated more than once, eg a period consisting
of three dactylic tripodies ; such a combination he calls a repeated ..."
3. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"... or Λ Χ) 338 On iambic and trochaic cola that in form apparently are tripodies and
... sometimes as tripodies, at other times, with a longer final pause, ..."
4. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1891)
"It may be objected that we seldom or never find iambic tripodies, to which all
the rejoinder ... is that there is a similar dearth of dactylic tripodies. ..."
5. A Greek Grammar: For Schools and Colleges by James Hadley (1884)
"... tripodies, which are always separated by a caesura. Of this verse the first
two feet may be dactyls or spondees at pleasure ; the fourth and fifth feet ..."
6. An Introduction to the Rhythmic and Metric of the Classical Languages: To by Johann Hermann Heinrich Schmidt, John Williams White (1902)
"... giving the verse the appearance of being divided into two tripodies : This,
however, cannot have been the original method, and is in conflict with the ..."
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