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chōlĭambus

chōlĭambus · m

iambic verse

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What it meant

chōlĭambus — Lewis & Short

chōlĭambus, i, m., = xwli/ambos (the limping iambus),

I iambic verse, whose last foot, instead of an iambus, is a spondee or trochee, Diom. p. 503 P.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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