iambo
Dictionary entries
- Entry →iambus, iambi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Poetry
iambus, metrical foot (one short-one long); iambic trimeter (as invective);
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...relata sescuplum faciant) aut duplex, ut iambos (nam est ex brevi et longa) quique est ei contrarius. XLVIII..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...vovit, si sibi restitutus essem desissemque truces vibrare iambos, electissima pessimi poetae scripta tardipedi deo daturam infelicibus ustulanda..." - Q
Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...iudice lis est. Archilochum proprio rabies armauit iambo; hunc socci cepere pedem grandesque coturni, alternis aptum sermonibus..."
