Definition of choliamb in English:

choliamb

noun ˈkəʊlɪam(b)

Prosody

another term for scazon
Example sentencesExamples
- Hipponax (mid-6th century) is said to have invented the choliamb, or ‘limping iamb’.
- In particular, it can be demonstrated that the choliambs, mixed with iambs, of the Hellenistic fable are comparable to those of a work with very very pronounced Cynic features, the choliambic ‘Life of Alexander’.
- Therefore, from the viewpoint of semantics, verse metre turns out to be even more relevant than genre choliamb and iambic trimeter are both the metres of satirical verses, but their semantic structures are very different.
- Herondas too, the author of mimes written in choliambs (‘limping iambics’), a metre typical of the archaic iambist Hipponax, dedicates an apologetic-programmatic poem, Mimiambus 8, to the defence of his poetics.

Derivatives

choliambic

adjective ˌkəʊlɪˈambɪk

Prosody

In later years, his northern students shared with their southern compatriots admiration for his soldierly valor, of which they were continually reminded, as one of them wrote, ‘by the choliambic [limping] rhythm in his majestic gait.’
Example sentencesExamples
- Chief among these are phalaecean (also known as hendecasyllabics), which he employs in some forty poems, followed numerically by choliambic (which also bears the title scazon), the meter of eight poems.
- Herodas was a Greek poet who wrote realistic but bawdy mimes in choliambic verse.
- It is well known that, from earliest times, iambus seems to designate iambic trimeters and trochaic tetrameters (including their choliambic variants, and with the subsequent addition of the epodes and the asynarteta).
- Indeed he invented an earthbound metre for the purpose, the choliambic or limping iambic, also known as scazon.

Origin

Mid 19th century: via late Latin from Greek khōliambos, from khōlos 'lame' + iambos (see iambus).

单词	choliamb
释义	Definition of choliamb in English: choliamb noun ˈkəʊlɪam(b) Prosody another term for scazon Example sentencesExamples Hipponax (mid-6th century) is said to have invented the choliamb, or ‘limping iamb’. In particular, it can be demonstrated that the choliambs, mixed with iambs, of the Hellenistic fable are comparable to those of a work with very very pronounced Cynic features, the choliambic ‘Life of Alexander’. Therefore, from the viewpoint of semantics, verse metre turns out to be even more relevant than genre choliamb and iambic trimeter are both the metres of satirical verses, but their semantic structures are very different. Herondas too, the author of mimes written in choliambs (‘limping iambics’), a metre typical of the archaic iambist Hipponax, dedicates an apologetic-programmatic poem, Mimiambus 8, to the defence of his poetics. Derivatives choliambic adjective ˌkəʊlɪˈambɪk Prosody In later years, his northern students shared with their southern compatriots admiration for his soldierly valor, of which they were continually reminded, as one of them wrote, ‘by the choliambic [limping] rhythm in his majestic gait.’ Example sentencesExamples Chief among these are phalaecean (also known as hendecasyllabics), which he employs in some forty poems, followed numerically by choliambic (which also bears the title scazon), the meter of eight poems. Herodas was a Greek poet who wrote realistic but bawdy mimes in choliambic verse. It is well known that, from earliest times, iambus seems to designate iambic trimeters and trochaic tetrameters (including their choliambic variants, and with the subsequent addition of the epodes and the asynarteta). Indeed he invented an earthbound metre for the purpose, the choliambic or limping iambic, also known as scazon. Origin Mid 19th century: via late Latin from Greek khōliambos, from khōlos 'lame' + iambos (see iambus).
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