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ep·ode

 (ĕp′ōd′)
n.
1. A lyric poem characterized by distichs formed by a long line followed by a shorter one.
2. The third division of the triad of a Pindaric ode, having a different or contrasting form from that of the strophe and antistrophe.
3. The part of a choral ode in classical Greek drama following the strophe and antistrophe and sung while the chorus is standing still.
[Latin epōdos, a type of lyric poem, from Greek epōidos, sung after, from epaeidein, epāidein, to sing after : epi-, epi- + aeidein, to sing; see wed- in Indo-European roots.]
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epode

(ˈɛpəʊd)
n
1. (Poetry) the part of a lyric ode that follows the strophe and the antistrophe
2. (Poetry) a type of lyric poem composed of couplets in which a long line is followed by a shorter one, invented by Archilochus
[C16: via Latin from Greek epōidos a singing after, from epaidein to sing after, from aidein to sing]
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ep•ode

(ˈɛp oʊd)

n.
1. a classical lyric poem in which a long line is followed by a short one.
2. the part of an ode following the strophe and the antistrophe.
[1590–1600; < Latin epōdos < Greek epōidós; see ep-, ode]
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In each set of three the first stanza is called the strophe (turn), being intended, probably, for chanting as the chorus moved in one direction; the second stanza is called the antistrophe, chanted as the chorus executed a second, contrasting, movement; and the third stanza the epode, chanted as the chorus stood still.
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(Epode) Such ills not I alone, He too our guest hath known, E'en as some headland on an iron-bound shore, Lashed by the wintry blasts and surge's roar, So is he buffeted on every side By drear misfortune's whelming tide, By every wind of heaven o'erborne Some from the sunset, some from orient morn, Some from the noonday glow.
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In the first pages--ostensibly devoted to Augustus and the Roman Empire--we leap from Augustus's moral legislation to Horace's Epodes to the imperial physician Galen to the Greek novel Leucippe and Clitophon of Achilles Tatius, again with the requisite amount of Foucault to season the selective, ahistorical, highly idiosyncratic, undisciplined mishmash.
Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire: Ideology, the Bible, and the Early Christians
Before analysing the sources that will enable us to assess how these tools were really employed by contemporary goetic practitioners, I shall compare Apuleius' description with those of magical materials that can be found in Horace's Epodes, Lucan's Bellum Civile, and Petronius' Satyrica.
The Real Tools of Magic: Pamphile's Macabre Paraphernalia (Apuleius, Met. 3,17,4-5)
The third, "Solvitur ambulando"--a Latin proverb meaning "It is solved by walking" or "by traveling," as in the voyage of the poem's title--is used, Scott writes, "to advocate practical action against impractical theorists." (2) And the fourth, "Flevit amores I Non elaboratum ad pedem," is a deliberate misquotation of Horace's Epodes, 14.11-12, so as to mean "He mourned for his loves"--plural as in the Amours of Clough's title; Horace has amorem, "love" singular--"in simple verse" (p.
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(6) Philip Francis, The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (London, 1743), iii.
Who is pressing you now?: A reconsideration of Milton's "Pyrrha Ode"
Some odes and epodes by Horace, Virgil, and others were very popular in the Renaissance, and were set many times.
The Latin problem--how much does a singer really need to know?
The Odes and Epodes. By Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus).
C.S. Lewis's two satyrs
(1) The paired erotic invectives, Epodes 8 and 12, however, thematize the poet's sexual impotence and his disgust during encounters with a repulsive sexual partner.
Iambic metapoetics in Horace, Epodes 8 and 12
The Epodes were for many years the least regarded of Horace's works.
The canines of Horace's Epodes
Casimire's A Palinode: To the second Ode of the booke of Epodes of Q.
The purgative, the illuminative, and Marvell's "The Garden"

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