Crossword-Solution: ARCHILOCHIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Archilochian | a. | Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
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greedy person
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Sentences with ARCHILOCHIAN (5)
Moreover his boast that he was the first to introduce the Archilochian iambic [73] and the lyric metres, [74] though perhaps justifiable; is the reverse of generous, seeing that Catullus had treated before him three at least of the metres to which he alludes.
The result is that those Archilochian edicts of Bibulus against him are so popular, that one can't get past the place where they are put up for the crowd of readers, and so deeply annoying to himself that he is pining with vexation.
Yet the dactylic movement of the First Archilochian, in which the "Diffugere nives" is written, is hardly without great loss to be represented by any use of English iambics.
The Alcaic and the Sapphic stanza, much less the Asclepiad or the Archilochian, have never yet been, and for obvious reasons never will be, naturalized in our English verse, though poor Percival thought differently, and added one more to a life of failures.
The degeneracy of Roman virtue, even in his days, provoked language of Archilochian bitterness from so stern a moralist, although he would not libellously attack those who were undeserving of censure.