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epodos

epodos · m

a form of lyric metre invented by Archilochus

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Where it lives

Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

ĕpōdos — Lewis & Short

ĕpōdos, i, m., = e)pwdo/s (singing to),

I a form of lyric metre invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one, not including the elegiac distich. So in Roman literature, the Epodi of Horace, Ter. Maur. p. 2422 P.; Diom. p. 482 ib.; Quint. 10, 1, 96; Aus. Ep. 10, 37; 16, 2.

In the wild

epodon Ausonius, Epistularum 4.11
epodos Ausonius, Epistularum 6.37
epodos Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.96
epodon Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 9.222

Where it came from

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

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