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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In ancient prosody, containing an Ionic preceded by an iambic dipody: an epithet applied by some Greek writers on metrics to some of the meters classed as logaœdic by recent writers.
  • noun In ancient prosody, a verse containing an Ionic following upon an iambic dipody.

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