ἀνάπαιστος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ον, (cf. sq.) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[hammered]], [[forged]], κλείς <span class="title">IG</span>2.678<span class="hiitalic">B</span>64, al., 11.161<span class="hiitalic">A</span>94 (Delos, iii B. C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">struck back, rebounding:</b>—as [[substantive]], [[anapaest]] (i. e. a dactyl [[reversed]]), <span class="bibl">D.H.<span class="title">Comp.</span> 25</span>, <span class="bibl">Heph.8</span>, etc.; ἀ. ἀπὸ μείζους [[dactyl]], <span class="bibl">Aristid.Quint.1.15</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[anapaestic verse]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Po.</span>1452b23</span>, <span class="bibl">D.H.1.25</span>, etc.: in pl., of the Comic [[parabasis]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>504</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pax</span>735</span>, al.; ἀνάπαιστοι σύμπτυκτοι <span class="bibl">Pherecr.79</span>, cf. Sch.metr.<span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>4.1</span>; <b class="b3">ἀνάπαιστόν τι</b> something [[in anapaestic metre]], <span class="bibl">Aeschin.1.158</span>: <b class="b3">ἀνάπαιστα, τά,</b> [[anapaestic verses]], <span class="bibl">Alciphr. 3.43</span>; especially of [[ribald]] or [[satirical songs]], <span class="bibl">D.C.66.8</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Per.</span> 33</span>.</span>