Dictionary - Definition of ARCHILOCHIAN

Definition: ARCHILOCHIAN


Part of Speech	Definition
Adjective	1. Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.[Websters] 2. Being corrosive. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb archilochianly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form (archilochianly)	1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective archilochian.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.		Top

Date "Archilochian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Etymology:Archilochian \Ar`chi*lo"chi*an\, adjective. [Latin expression Archilochius.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: ARCHILOCHIAN

Domain	Definition
Noah Webster	[Adjective] Pertaining to Archilochus, the poet, who invented a verse of seven feet, the first four dactyls or spondees, the last three, trochees. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
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Specialty Expressions: ARCHILOCHIAN

Expressions	Domain	Definition
Archilochian Bitterness	Literature	Illnatured satire, so named from Archilochos, the Grecian satirist (B.C. 714--676). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Extended Definition: ARCHILOCHIAN

Archilochian

Archilochian is a term in poetry applied to a sort of verse invented by Archilochus. An Archilochian verse consists of seven feet: four dactyls - or alternatively spondees -, followed by three trochees. For instance,

Solvitur acris hyems grata vice veris et Favoni. from Horace's Odes 1.4.

As in that ode, Archilochian verses were usually mixed with verses in a form of iambic hexameter less one syllable.

These verses are also called dactylic, because they typically begin with dactyls.

References

This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain. [1]

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Archilochian". Image Credit.
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