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Definition of Epitrites
1. epitrite [n] - See also: epitrite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epitrites
Literary usage of Epitrites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1897)
"When we come to Aristophanes we see that dactylo-epitrites are used for capricious
... It is in the dactylo-epitrites of Pindar that the positio debilis is ..."
2. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1905)
"The first proof is, that this is the very best way of bringing the discordant
elements which we see, the seeming dactyls and the seeming epitrites, ..."
3. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"This doctrine MARX declines to accept as he declines to follow Otto Schroeder,
who resolves the dactylo- epitrites into ionici as did the ancient ..."
4. Greek and Roman Versification: With an Introduction on the Development of by Lucian Müller, Samuel Ball Platner (1892)
"... suppression of the arsis, etc., which are not allowed in the dialogues, we
find also dactylic measures, often with anacrusis, epitrites, ..."
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