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from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Greek lyric poet Stesichorus (Tisias) of Himera (about 632–550
b. c .), inventor of epodic composition; specifically, in ancient prosody, noting a trochaic trimeter of the form ¯ ˘ ¯ ¯ | ¯ ˘ ¯ ¯ | ¯ ˘ ¯ ¯ - an encomiologie verse
- a line consisting of two dactylic tetrapodies, the last foot a spondee.
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