chōliambic (or scazon), in metre, the so-called ‘limping iambic’ line in which the penultimate syllable, short in an iambic line, is long (see METRE, GREEK
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chōliambic (or scazon), in metre, the so-called ‘limping iambic’ line in which the penultimate syllable, short in an iambic line, is long (see METRE, GREEK
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