Lexicographical Neighbors of Amoebaean
Literary usage of Amoebaean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"first, especially by their amoebaean composition. In the beginning of Nero's
reign we have the seven Eclogues of Cal- ..."
2. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society by Cambridge Philological Society (1902)
"It is now used by scholars to designate passages which are amoebaean, ... Threnos,
but that amoebaean composition was extended to the expression of other ..."
3. The Poems of Virgil: Vol. I. Containing the Pastoral Poems and Six Books of by Virgil (1874)
"Though the amoebaean verse is Greek, and the poem itself copied from Theocritus,
yet the alternate abuse is thoroughly Italian. The Romans were very fond of ..."
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