choliambus

Sunt verba voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem possis, magnam morbi deponere partem → Words will avail the wretched mind to ease and much abate the dismal black disease.

Horace, Epistles 1.34

Latin > English

choliambus choliambi N M :: limping iambus; (iambic verse whose last foot not iambus but spondee/trochee)

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.

chōlĭambus, ī, m. (χωλίαμβος), choliambe ou scazon, vers ïambique terminé par un spondée : Diom. 504, 9.

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.