Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In prosody, the substitution of a ditrochee for an Ionic a majori, so that the second and third of the four syllables interchange lengths.
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- noun The
substitution of along for ashort syllable (or vice versa) to break up therhythm of apoem . - noun
reflection orrefraction oflight orsound . - noun medicine The forced
bending of ajoint .
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Examples
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In v. 10 I have ventured on a license which Catullus does not admit, but which is, I think, justified by other and earlier specimens of the metre, an anaclasis of the original Ionic a minore at the end of the line.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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In v. 10 I have ventured on a license which Catullus does not admit, but which is, I think, justified by other and earlier specimens of the metre, an anaclasis of the original Ionic a minore at the end of the line.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Catullus does not admit, but which is, I think, justified by other and earlier specimens of the metre, an anaclasis of the original Ionic a minore at the end of the line.
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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