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galliambic, a. and n.|gælɪˈæmbɪk|
[f. L. galliamb-us a song of the Galli or priests of Cybele (f. Gallus + iambus) + -ic.]
A. adj. Epithet of a lyric metre (founded on the Ionic a minore tetrameter catalectic, with anaclasis), supposed to have been used by the priests of the Phrygian Cybele in their songs.
a1876M. Collins Pen Sketches (1879) I. 215 Catullus relates the madness of Atys in a wonderful wild measure, intended to represent the ravings of that mystic priesthood, and thence called galliambic. 189319th Cent. Mar. 448 The galliambic rhythm of Boadicea is borrowed from..the celebrated Attis.
B. n. The galliambic metre; a verse written in this metre.
a1846Landor Wks. (1876) II. 175 note, The Galliambic of Catullus may be a relic (the only one) of Phrygian poetry. a1876M. Collins Pen Sketches (1879) I. 215 There were at that time no English galliambics; but Mr. Tennyson has since written them [in Boadicea] with great power. 1887Athenæum 11 June 759/3 [George Meredith's] ‘Phaéthôn’, an achievement in the galliambic measure, which..should be read, not as galliambics, but as poetry pure and simple, while English poetry endures. |