Definition of Scazon. Meaning of Scazon. Synonyms of Scazon

- Choliambic verse (Ancient Gr****: χωλίαμβος), also known as limping iambs or scazons or halting iambic, is a form of meter in poetry. It is found in both Gr****...
- written in either hendecasyllables or elegiac couplets, with a few also in scazons. Many of the epigrams are written as though they were to be engraved on...
- Hipponax (about 540 BCE). The invention of the satyric iambic verse called Scazon is ascribed to him as well as to Hipponax. Some fragments of Ananius are...
- rhythmical prose; Theocritus uses the hexameter and Doric, Herodas the scazon or "lame" iambic (with a dragging spondee at the end) and the old Ionic...
- catalectic (in Latin also known as Iambic septenarius) Choliambic (also known as Scazon), a variation on the Iambic trimeter These are not the only stichic metres...
- Herodas. Persius's satires are composed in hexameters, except for the scazons of the short prologue above referred to. The first satire censures the...
- Cyclades. The quoted phrase corpusque suaui telino unguimus is part of a scazon or iambic trimeter. Its author has also been identified as C. Iulius Caesar...
- poet's function." He was considered the inventor of a peculiar metre, the scazon ("halting iambic" as Murray calls it) or choliamb, which substitutes a spondee...
- name choliambics means lame iambics and sometimes the meter is called scazons or limpers. ("Lame trochaics" exist as well, being a trochaic tetrameter...
- and that is more comfortable than giving full syllabic value to the final re." Bridges' footnote: "A scazon from Martial. The proper name is changed."...