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pariambus

pariambus · m

A metrical foot consisting of a short and two long syllables

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Where it lives

Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

părĭambus — Lewis & Short

părĭambus, i, m., = pari/ambos.

I A metrical foot consisting of a short and two long syllables (˘¯¯), Diom. p. 475 P.—

II A metrical foot consisting of a long and four short syllables (¯˘˘˘˘), Diom. p. 478 P.—

III A metrical foot consisting of two short syllables, commonly called a pyrrhichius, Diom. p. 471 P.; cf. Mar. Vict. p. 2486 ib.; Quint. 9, 4, 80.

In the wild

pariambum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.80

Where it came from

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

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