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pythiambic
pythiˈambic, a. (n.) Anc. Pros. [ad. mod.L. pythiambic-us, f. Pȳthius Pythian (versus Pȳthius hexameter verse) + iambicus iambic.] The epithet or name of an episynthetic or composite metre consisting of a dactylic hexameter (Pythian verse) followed by an iambic colon. There are two varieties accordi... Oxford English Dictionary
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Latin prosody
Pythiambics Another couplet is formed when a line of dactylic hexameter is followed by a line of iambic dimeter, and this is called the First Pythiambic The Second Pythiambic features an iambic trimeter instead of iambic dimeter in the second line. Horace's Epode 16 is an example. wikipedia.org
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senarius
‖ senarius Prosody. (siːˈnɛərɪəs) Pl. senarii. [L. sēnārius adj., consisting of six each, f. sēnī adj. pl. six each, f. sex six; used subst. by ellipsis of versus verse.] (More fully, iambic senarius.) A (Greek or Latin) verse consisting of six feet, each of which is either an iambus or some foot wh... Oxford English Dictionary
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Epodes (Horace)
these metres combine iambic elements with dactylic ones and include: the second and third Archilochian, the Alcmanic strophe, and the first and second Pythiambic wikipedia.org
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