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Asclepiad1|əskˈliːpɪæd|
[ad. L. Asclēpiadēus, a. Gr. ἀσκληπιάδειος, adj. f. ἀσκληπιάδης name of a Greek poet.]
In Greek and Latin prosody: A verse, invented by Asclepiades, consisting of a spondee, two (or three) choriambi, and an iambus. Also attrib. Hence the adjs.: † aˌsclepiˈadic (also used subst.), † aˌsclepiˈadical, aˌsclepiaˈdean.
1656in Blount Glossogr. 1876Kennedy Pub. Sch. Lat. Gram. §265 Of the Asclepiad..Horace employed five systems. Ibid. A stanza composed of three lesser Asclepiad verses. 1546Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. i. viii. 17 a, Meters..hath their name, eyther..of the inuentour as æsclepiadicall. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 229 Singing these verses called Asclepiadikes. 1652E. Marbury Comm. Habakkuk (1865) 156 Verses, heroic, iambic, asclepiadic [printed -idiac]. 1706Phillips, Asclepiadean. 1860Schmitz Lat. Gram. 306 The second Asclepiadean metre. |