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  • Nor can the earlier "Epode," beginning "Not to know vice at all," be matchedin stately gravity and gnomic wisdom in its own wise and stately age.

    Every Man in His Humor Ben Jonson 1605

  • Horace, Epode 7, in The Odes and Epodes of Horace, trans.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Horace, Epode 7, in The Odes and Epodes of Horace, trans.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Epode 2 alpha, Strophe alpha 1, Strophe beta 2, Antistrophe alpha gamma,

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • In the Epode, or closing portion of the tragedy, the following

    Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson

  • Romans, was made ill by eating garlic at the table of Maecenas; and afterwards (in his third _Epode_) he reviled the plant as, _Cicutis allium nocentius_, "Garlic more poisonous than hemlock."

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • The Poet seems, in the first Ode particularly, to design the Epode as a complete air to the Strophe and Antistrophe, which have more the appearance of Recitative.

    Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

  • _Epode_, shows hardly a mark affording proof of the fact.

    Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman

  • Strophes have a correspondent resemblance in their str [u] cture and numbers: and the Antistrophe and Epode also bear the same similitude.

    Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

  • By the advocates of the W sound of the V much stress is laid upon the fact that the poets occasionally change the consonant into the vowel U, and _vice versa_; as Horace, Epode VIII.

    The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord

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