choliambus
noun
a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
choliambi
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pluralof choliambus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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 Harold Edgeworth Butler
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 Harold Edgeworth Butler
