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Headword:
*xori/ambos
Adler number: chi,402
Translated headword: choriamb
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A meter of verse.[1]
Babrias or Babrios, [wrote] Myths or Fables: for they are in choriambs, in ten books. This man changed some of the fables of Aesop from his prose tales into verse; that is choriambs.[2]
Greek Original:*xori/ambos: me/tron sti/xwn. *babri/as h)\ *ba/brios, *mu/qous h)/toi *muqika/: ei)si\ ga\r dia\ xoria/mbwn, e)n bibli/ois de/ka. ou(=tos e)k tw=n *ai)swpei/wn mu/qwn mete/balen a)po\ th=s au)tw=n logopoii/+as ei)s e)/mmetra: h)/goun tou\s xoria/mbous.
Notes:
[1] The choriamb is an element of lyric verse, consisting of a long syllable, two shorts, and another long: see LSJ at web address 1.
[2] Quoted from
beta 7 (q.v.). His fables are in choliambic verse ("limping iambics": cf.
chi 424), not choriambics. For Aesop see
alphaiota 332,
alphaiota 334,
alphaiota 335.
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Keywords: biography; definition; meter and music; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 13 January 2001@16:58:19.
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