Crossword-Solution: SCAZON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scazon | n. | A choliamb. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “SCAZON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CHOLIAMB | 1 answer |
| IAMBIC verse with spondee or trochee in last foot | 2 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with SCAZON (5)
The hendecasyllable and scazon of Catullus became part and parcel of the poetic heritage of Rome, and Martial employs them only less happily than their matchless creator.
Other measures, used with more or less success, are the iambic scazon, [123] the chorianibic, the glyconic, and the sapphic, all probably introduced from the Greek by Catullus.
But the perfection of the art of Catullus is seen in his employment of those metres which he adapted to the Latin tongue from the earlier poets of Greece, the pure iambic trimeter, as in iv.-- "Phaselus ille quem videtis hospites," the scazon iambic, employed in viii.
Choliambus or scazon, which is the same with the last mentioned, except that the concluding foot of the line is always a spondee.
SCAZON, sk[=a]'zon, _n._ in ancient prosody, a metre, the rhythm of which is imperfect toward the close of the line or period.