choliambus
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Etymology
Origin of choliambus
< Greek chōlíambos, equivalent to chōl ( ós ) lame, halting + íambos iamb
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In a lonely hollow walk, overgrown with sting-nettles he scanned the deadly verses on his fingers, until the murderous iambus flowed evenly upon its four feet without a halting choliambus.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von
The slender volume of Persius' works is composed of six satires in hexameter verse and a prologue written in choliambi.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
The choliambi are placed after the satires by two of the three best MSS., but before them by the scholia and inferior MSS.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
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