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..."- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...mirari licuit tam elegantes strophas; nam repente lacunaria sonare coeperunt totumque triclinium intremuit. Consternatus ego exsurrexi, et timui..."