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(Ancient Greece, music, prosody) A verse used in prosodia, having three anapests, of which the first may be substituted with a spondee or iamb..
Moreover, unto him [Archilochus], as firſt inventour, are attributed the Epodes, Tetrameter, Iambicks, Procritique and Proſodiacks; […]
Moreover, one of the most natural uses of verse would be to march by; and for this purpose the triple beat would not serve without a pause. This would lead us to the paroemiac or prosodiac, and to the well known theory of [Theodor] Bergk, or the slightly different theory of [Hermann] Usener.
Pers[ians] 694–696 = 700–702 may be regarded as consisting of two prosodiacs and a paroemiac. It is, however, better to scan the first two verses as ionic dimeters, retaining the paroemiac close, though a logaoedic rhythm […] often occurs at the end of a strophe. The assumption of ionics avoids the necessity of resolving the second arsis of the prosodiacs.
Prosodiacs normally start with double-short —◡◡— (d) and end with single-short —◡— (s).
The proſodiac nome was ſung in honour of Mars, and was, they ſay, invented by Olympus.
Some verses, for instance, bear much stronger marks of an original spondaic rhythm than others of the same number of feet. There seem, for instance, to have been prosodiac and paroemiac verses based on the spondee.
The specific characteristics of melic anapaests are: […] (6) The presence of catalectic and acatalectic (prosodiac) tripodies.
With a shorter prosodiac line which is then repeated, 1075 f., according to [James] Diggle’s colometry.
Use prosodiac when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Prosodiac means (Ancient Greece, music, prosody) A verse used in prosodia, having three anapests, of which the first may be substituted with a spondee or iamb..
Common synonyms include prosodic.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Moreover, unto him [Archilochus], as firſt inventour, are attributed the Epodes, Tetrameter, Iambicks, Procritique and Proſodiacks; […]
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