strophas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →stropha, strophae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Cassell's Latin Dictionary
trick, artifice;
acc. pl.
Examples
Liber XI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Albanum jussit me mane venire, Caesar Circeios." Jam stropha talis abit. Penelopae licet esse tibi sub principe Nerva..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...mirari licuit tam elegantes strophas; nam repente lacunaria sonare coeperunt totumque triclinium intremuit. Consternatus ego exsurrexi, et timui..."