10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHORIAMBUS»
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The Grecian Drama: A Treatise on the Dramatic Literature of ...
Instances are very rare in which the two short syllables are contracted into one
long, so that a molossus might stand for a choriambus, and this contraction
occurs only among the tragic poets. A choriambic verse sometimes begins with
an ...
John Richard Darley (Bp. of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh), 1840
2
Redefining Hungarian Music from Liszt to Bartók
When the opening hallgató theme returns in a chorus of winds at rehearsal
number 4, a simple choriambus pops up in that phrase which connects the
opening motto, and several versions of this motto that appear throughout the
movement, ...
3
A Complete System of Latin Prosody: For the Use of Schools, ...
These have the first foot a trochee, the last an iambus, and the intervening feet
chori- ambuses ; that is, they consist of one choriambus or more inserted
between the separated members of a choriambus. In some instances, the
choriambus is ...
Patrick S. Casserly, 1847
4
The Quantity, or Measure of Latin Syllables, interspersed ...
Choriambic verses are those'which are scanned " by choriambus's, that is to say,
by measures of two feet, after the manner of the Greeks. -'A choriambus is a
measure of four syllables, or two feet, the one a choree and the other an iambus,
or a ...
5
The Eton Latin Grammar: With the Addition of Many Useful ...
... Ascliprad or Choriambic Dimeter Inttrpositc, which is made up of two
choriambuses interposed between a spondee and an iambus or pyrrhie. Each
choriambus should terminate with the termination of a word : — unless the first
choriambus ...
Vv.^697, 8. 6euv x°P°'ol\ oraf | oirus I fim\: choriambus: iambic penthemimer. \ v.
699, 700. vvala Kvurr \ X op\ || fiP-ar\a\)rbba.Ti'\ivvu:v \ Xa^\i\% | : choriambus,
iambus : trochee, choriambus: and iambic penthemimer. V. 701. vvv yap (fj.oi\\ )i?
Sophocles, Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, 1871
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Transactions of the Philological Society
That the time of a Choriambus was supplied by a rest seems to be indicated by
the fact, that, in all the various species of Choriambic verse employed by Horace,
wherever one Choriambus is followed by another, the former ends with the end of
...
Philological Society (Great Britain), 1854
8
Hermann's Elements of the Doctrine of Metres, abridged and ...
Androm. 502. a5' éyo'u xépas (Xi/10'rn' pin fiptixoun Kexhetpéva aéIuiropm Karil
yalas. §460. They who have made this metre polyschematistic, first of all changed
the logaoedic order into a choriambus and iambus, by which the last syllable ...
Johann Gottfried Jacob HERMANN, John SEAGER, 1830
9
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
w w £ g, or, when doubled, w"w\s-vsu-w Associated with the choriambus, as its
equivalents in time, we have the double iamb ami the double trochee, either
complete, or catalectic ; and in the latter case the time is made up either by a rest,
or by ...
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology: By ...
choriambus, as its equivalents in time, we have the double iamb and the double
trochee, either complete, or catalectic; and in the latter case the time is made up
either by a rest, or by reckoning the beginning and the ending of the verse ...
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wordbook
Then comes the choriambus, a term actually borrowed from poetic meter (it is a four-syllable foot: “dum-diddy-dum”). Last is the theodolind, ... «OUPblog, Dec 10»
