Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ancient prosody, a meter the rhythm of which is imperfect toward the close of the line or period.
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- noun (Lat. Pros.) A choliamb.
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- noun A limping
satiric meter in classical verse. - noun A
iambic trimeter ending with a trochee or spondee.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The metres most often employed are elegiac, hendecasyllabic, and the scazon.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Other measures, used with more or less success, are the iambic scazon, [123] the chorianibic, the glyconic, and the sapphic, all probably introduced from the Greek by Catullus.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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We observe here the rare rhythm, analogous to the iambic scazon, of a trochaic tetrameter with a long penultimate syllable.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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The hendecasyllable and scazon of Catullus became part and parcel of the poetic heritage of Rome, and Martial employs them only less happily than their matchless creator.
Horace Theodore Martin 1862
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In a scazon, written in his praise, he calls him [704] a great, an admirable, and an original man.
The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Burigny, Jean L De 1754
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In a scazon, written in his praise, he calls him [704] a great, an admirable, and an original man.
The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works Jean L��vesque de Burigny 1738
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It is divided, in regard of the national government, into three tribes, and in respect of the urban into twenty six, which for distinction's sake are called wards, being contained under three tribes but unequally; wherefore the first tribe containing ten wards is called scazon, the second containing eight metoche, and the third containing as many telicouta, the bearing of which names in mind concerns the better understanding of the government.
The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644
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