paeonicadj.n.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1259 He who knoweth Pæon, shall not incontinently know the property of the use thereof, forasmuch as there is some doubt as concerning the making of Pæonik [1657 Pæonick] rhythmes, to wit, whether the Rhythmetique matter is able to judge with distinct knowledge of them.

1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 171 Dr. Eaton writ a Discourse of ab^t a sheet on Peonick verse.

1830 J. Seager tr. J. G. J. Hermann Elem. Doctr. Metres ii. xl. 104 The ancient Greeks themselves appear not to have completely distinguished between Cretic and pæonic numbers.

1879 J. W. White tr. J. H. H. Schmidt Rhythmic & Metric §22. 69 Paeonic sentences are rare in Aeschylus.

1957 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 1 148 An extra dash should be added to indicate the fourth syllable in the schematized illustration of the first paeonic foot.

2000 A. G. Gross & A. E. Walzer Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric v. 88 In the next two chapters of the Rhetoric (3.8–9) he [sc. Aristotle] prescribes for the thetor paeonic rhythm in periodic sentences.

1830 J. Seager tr. J. G. J. Hermann Elem. Doctr. Metres ii. xl. 104 Pæonics catalectic on two syllables, and having an iambic anacrusis, are rarely met with.

1879 J. W. White tr. J. H. H. Schmidt Rhythmic & Metric §21. 66 Paeonics and bacchii.

1936 M. Platnauer in C. Bailey et al. Greek Poetry & Life 248 Antistrophic paeonics are to be found in more than half the plays.

1992 M. L. West Anc. Greek Mus. v. 140 The third rhythmic genus recognized by Aristotle and Aristoxenus is the paeonic, in which the thesis and arsis are in the durational ratio 2:3.