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epode |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Epode \Ep"ode\, n. [L. epodos Gr ?, fr ?, adj., singing to sung or said after fr ? to sing to 'epi` upon to + ? to sing: cf F. ['e]pode. See {Ode}.] (Poet.) a The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe, -- the ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrophe, and epode. b A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one as the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac distich.
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