epode

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Again, in the second Epode, these fine verses would surely sound much finer if they began, 'As a hardy climber who has set his heart,' than with the jejune 'As hardy climber.'

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The word Ode is Greek for a Song; Epode was merely a metrical term to express an ode which alternated in longer and shorter lines, and we may treat them all alike as Odes.

From Horace by Tuckwell, William

Finally, when, as we shall see presently, Horace in his second Epode, accords Vergil the honor of imitating a passage of the Culex, Vergil returns the compliment in his Georgics.

From Vergil A Biography by Frank, Tenney

The first of these parts is called the Strophe, or Turn; the second, the Antistrophe, or Counter-turn; the third, the Epode, or After-song.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

By the advocates of the w sound of the v much stress is laid upon the fact that the poets occasionally change the consonant into the vowel u, and vice versa; as Horace, Epode VIII. 2:

From The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it by Lord, Frances Ellen