choliambus
From LSJ
Ὁ κόσμος σκηνή, ὁ βίος πάροδος· ἦλθες, εἶδες, ἀπῆλθες → The world is a stage, life is your entrance: you came, you saw, you departed (Democritus fr. 115 D-K)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
chōlĭambus: i, m., = χωλίαμβος (the limping iambus),
I iambic verse, whose last foot, instead of an iambus, is a spondee or trochee, Diom. p. 503 P.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
chōlĭambus, ī, m. (χωλίαμβος), choliambe ou scazon, vers ïambique terminé par un spondée : Diom. 504, 9.
Latin > German (Georges)
chōliambus, ī, m. (χωλίαμβος), der hinkende Iambus, Choliambus (auch scazon, σκάζων, gen.), ein vollständiger Trimeter, der aber statt des letzten Iambus einen Spondeus od. Trochäus hat, Diom. 504, 9.
