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choriambus

choriambus · m

a foot composed of a choreus and an iambus

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Where it lives

Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k

What it meant

chŏrĭambus — Lewis & Short

chŏrĭambus, i, m., = xori/ambos, in verse,

I a foot composed of a choreus and an iambus,—˘˘—, Diom. p. 478 P.; Marc. Vict. p. 2490 ib. al.—Adj.: choriambum carmen, consisting of the choriambus, Aus. Ep. 10, 37.—Hence, chŏrĭambĭcus, a, um, adj., choriambic: metrum, Diom. p. 509 P.; Serv. Centim. p. 1822 ib.: versus, Sid. Ep. 9, 13.

In the wild

choriambum Ausonius, Epistularum 6.37

Where it came from

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

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