Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Mimes composed in iambic verse: as, the mimiambi of Herondas.
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Examples
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Romanus, a writer of comedies of 'the old style' and of _mimiambi_.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Wünsch has shown the liturgic character of a prayer to Asklepios, inserted by Herondas into his mimiambi (_Archiv für Religionswiss.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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