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epode|ˈɛpəʊd|
Also 7 epod.
[a. OF. epode ad. L. epōdos, a. Gr. ἐπῳδύς after-song, incantation, f. ἐπᾴδειν, f. ἐπί upon, after + ᾄδειν, ἀείδειν to sing.]
1. a. A kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a long line is followed by a shorter one, of metres different from the elegiac; used by Horace in his 5th Book of Odes. b. An incantation. c. A poem of grave character.
1598Florio, Epodo, a kinde of verses, hauing the first verse longer then the second. 1616B. Jonson Forest x, Now my thought takes wing, And now an Epode to deep ears I sing. 1647Crashaw Music's Duel Poems, 90 She qualifies their zeal With the cool epode of a graver note. 1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. 410/1 Pythagoras made use of Epodes. 1656–81Blount Glossogr., Epod. 1693Dryden Juvenal Ded. (R.) Horace seems to have purged himself from those splenetic reflections in those odes and epodes. 1721–1800in Bailey. 1847in Craig. And in mod. Dicts.
2. The part of a lyric ode sung after the strophe and antistrophe.
1671Milton Samson Pref., Strophe, Antistrophe, or Epode..were a kind of Stanzas framed only for the music then used with the Chorus that sung. 1847Grote Greece ii. xxix. (1862) III. 67 Choric compositions, containing not only a strophê and antistrophê, but also a third division or epode succeeding them.
Hence eˈpodic a., pertaining to, or of the nature of, an epode.
1866Felton Anc. & Mod. Gr. I. ix. 152 A series of iambic and epodic invectives. |