10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCAZONTIC»
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scazontic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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It is, however, clear gain not to have to endure the society of a fellow who is more
pestilent than his pestilential birthplace ; one moreover who has been knocked
down as a cheap lot by the scazontic hammer of Calvus.' Calvus, the rival of ...
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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius: ...
3 Nectar is found in two MSS. ; all the others have "melos," which has been
rejected as not making a scazontic line. But Homer, in his Hymn to Mercury,
makes the first syllable long ; and also Antipater, in an Epigram on Anacreon, aKfi
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3
The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...
And to avenge this insult, Hipponax altered the Iambic of Archilochus into a more
bitter form by making the last foot a spondee, which gave the verse a kind of
halting rhythm, and was hence called Scazontic, from and^oi - or Choliambic,
from ...
4
Short histories of the literatures of the world
Of other metres there are practically but two, the hendecasyllabic and the
scazontic, and in these Martial's master is Catullus. His adherence to the long
syllable in the opening of the former gives his lines, masterly as they are, an air of
...
5
A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the ...
The famous and FWst scazontic prologue, with its affected language, satirising
affectation, and its conceits, giving an object- lesson of conceited style, is all
literary except the moral, quoad 1 In two cases at least. And Quin- was in Rome
before ...
In the latter case the rhythmical anceps, marked x , will be like the penult of a
scazontic Iambic senarius, or a dochmiac foot of which the penult is a syllable
long metrically, but having the thesis, i.e. anceps. The reasons why it must remain
a ...
Aeschylus, John Fletcher Davies, 1885
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Studies in the literary relations of England and Germany in ...
2 Schonaeus is fond of relieving the monotony of his senarii with catalectic,
trochaic and scazontic verses at very frequent intervals. 3 Schonaeus, Juditha v.
5. least borne. It held that the drama ought to be CHANGES OF FRONT. 95.
Charles Harold Herford, 1886
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Horace: with notes by C. Girdlestone and W.A. Osborne
He was born at Ephesus, and lived at Clazo- menae, and invented Choriambics,
or Scazontic verse. Bupalus and Athenis, sculptors of Chios, caricatured his
ugliness in statues. He resented this in satires of such bitterness, that Bupalus, ...
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Charles Girdlestone, 1848
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... cases,” plausibly scanned as: Th eir p arch ǀ m ent, pl ate ǀ ănd p yx ǀ ĭn l
ocked ǀ c as es. That is, the sequence is iamb ǀ iamb ǀ iamb ǀ iamb ǀ trochee.
Note that the scazontic substitution of trochee for iamb in THE ARTS OF SOUND
137.
This gives a kind of scazontic or limping effect to the measure, which, though not
unpleasant, is certainly peculiar. It is not observed by Mr. M., but we believe it is
certainly true, that this kind of metre never admits any change of place in the ...
