Definition of Iambus. Meaning of Iambus. Synonyms of Iambus

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Definition of Iambus

Iambus
Iambus I*am"bus, n.; pl. L. Iambi, E. Iambuses. [L. iambus, Gr. ?; prob. akin to ? to throw, assail (the iambus being first used in satiric poetry), and to L. jacere to throw. Cf. Jet a shooting forth.] (Pros.) A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in [a^]m[=a]ns, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.

Meaning of Iambus from wikipedia

- Iamb, iambus, or iambic may refer to: Look up iamb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Iamb (poetry) Choliamb Iambus (genre) Iambic trimeter Iambic tetrameter...
- surviving poetry. Possibly he became involved in iambus via the cult of Dionysus. This cult's ****ociation with iambus seems to be indicated etymologically by the...
- should bite the pilot on the shin—fragment 28 Hipponax composed within the Iambus tradition which, in the work of Archilochus, a hundred years earlier, appears...
- An iamb (/ˈaɪæm/ EYE-am) or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry. Originally the term referred to one of the feet of the quantitative...
- elegies and iambics. The Gr****s themselves did not include elegies nor iambus within melic poetry, since they had different metres and different musical...
- elegy and iambus (ἴαμβος) – elegy aimed at some degree of decorum, since it emplo**** the stately hexameter of epic, whereas the term 'iambus', as used...
- "lyric poetry" in modern criticism, are excluded—namely, the elegy and iambus which were performed with flutes. The Nine Lyric Poets are traditionally...
- Joseph (1988), Didyma: Apollo's Oracle, Cult, and Companions Callimachus, Iambus Fr. 217 Pf. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Luigi Lehnus, Susan Stephens (2011)...
- pyrrhus, dibrach iamb (or iambus or jambus) trochee, c****e (or c****us) spondee...
- Kingdom Died c. 240 BC Alexandria, Ptolemaic Kingdom Period ****enistic period Genre Aetiology, Epigram, Iambus, Hymn, Epyllion Notable works Aetia Hecale...