Asclepiadean


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Asclepiadean

(æˌskliːpɪəˈdiːən) prosody
adj
(Poetry) of or relating to a type of classical verse line consisting of a spondee, two or three choriambs, and an iamb
n
(Poetry) Also called: Asclepiad an Asclepiadean verse
[C17: via Latin from Greek Asklēpiadēs (about 270 bc), who invented the verse form]
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without Rhyme according to the Latin Measure." But Milton notably deviates from Horace's meter--Fourth Asclepiadean, in this case--though his headnote says otherwise.
Who is pressing you now?: A reconsideration of Milton's "Pyrrha Ode"
The paper falls into two parts: the first half addresses the evidence for the presence of void in Asclepiades' theory, and concludes that his conception of void was basically that of Epicurus; the second half focuses on the precise nature of Asclepiadean pores, and seeks to show that they represent void interstices between the primary particles of matter that constitute the human body, and are thus exactly analogous to the void interstices between atoms within solid objects in Epicurus' theory.--Correspondence to: dl383@cam.ac.uk
Phronesis: 2012, Vol. 57, No. 2
The result, used, for example, by Sappho and Alcaeus, was called Asclepiadean and was scanned UU | - U U - - U U - | U - or UU | - U U - - U U - - U U - | U -.
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