epode

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In answer to your Lordship's objection to many-twinkling, in that beautiful epode, I will quote authority to which you will yield.

From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by Wragg, H.

The Greek ode was commonly divided into the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode; the strophe and antistrophe being identical in structure, though varying in different odes, and the epode being of different structure.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

Stars now they sparkle In the northern Heaven— The guard Arcturus, The guard-watch'd Bear. epode.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

Its bitterness is found in Catullus, Bibaculus, and Horace, though in the last the epode breaks its monotony.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

The poet was Horace, who in the sixteenth epode had candidly expressed the fears of Roman republicans for Rome's capacity to survive.

From Vergil A Biography by Frank, Tenney