Epode

This is the life I commend, this the life I set before me as my ideal, to exercise no authority beyond what is right either in the marriage-chamber or in the state. epode ❋ Unknown (2007)

(Ah woe and well – a – day! but be the issue fair!) epode ❋ Unknown (2002)

When the first course was taken off, the females melodiously sung us an epode in the praise of the sacrosanct decretals; and then the second course being served up, Homenas, joyful and cheery, said to one of the she-butlers, Light here, Clerica. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Of the three parts of the ode, the _strophe_, the _antistrophe_, and the _epode_, each was to be sung at a particular part of the procession. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)

'Horatian' ode or the complex system of strophe, antistrophe and epode of the 'Pindaric' ode, 131 ff. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)

These have first a strophe of undetermined length, then an antistrophe identical in structure with the strophe, and then an epode, different in structure from the strophe and antistrophe. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)

The second strophe and second antistrophe are identical metrically with the first, the second epode with the first epode; and so on. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)

In each set of three the first stanza is called the strophe (turn), being intended, probably, for chanting as the chorus moved in one direction; the second stanza is called the antistrophe, chanted as the chorus executed a second, contrasting, movement; and the third stanza the epode, chanted as the chorus stood still. ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)

The signs denoting the end of a strophe or antistrophe (_paragraphus_), of an epode (_coronis_), or of an ode (_asterisk_), are often omitted by the scribe, and, when employed, are sometimes placed incorrectly, or employed in an irregular manner. ❋ Various (N/A)

The poet was Horace, who in the sixteenth epode had candidly expressed the fears of Roman republicans for Rome's capacity to survive. ❋ Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 (1922)

Whether Octavian, and his sage adviser Maecenas, acted from the same motive we do not know, though they too had seen in Vergil's epigrams on Antony's creatures, and in Horace's sixteenth epode that the poets of the new generation seemed likely to give effective expression to political sentiments. ❋ Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 (1922)

Lines were grouped into strophes and antistrophes, commonly in pairs and triplets, rarely in greater multiples; at times an independent strophe, like the epode of the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Not to mention how he had shackled himself with strophe, antistrophe, and epode (yet acquitting himself nobly), the nature of prophecy forbade him naming his kings. ❋ Various (1913)

In answer to your Lordship's objection to many-twinkling, in that beautiful epode, I will quote authority to which you will yield. ❋ Various (1913)

Although he declared himself opposed to the use of rhyme, and even wrote some of his longer poems unrhymed, many of his poems show that he was master of it; he even introduced some new metres into ltalian verse; he seems to have preferred short lines and some of his poems are in the form of the Pindaric ode, with strophe, antistrophe, and epode. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Mr. Watts-Dunton proceeds: "The finest music of �schylus, of Pindar, of Shakespeare, of Milton, is after all, only a succession of melodious notes, and in endeavouring to catch the harmonic intent of strophe, antistrophe and epode in the Greek chorus and in the true ode (that of Pindar), we can only succeed by pressing memory into our service." ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

Gavin's reinstalment in the chair year after year was made by the disappointed dominie the subject of some tart verses which be called an epode, but Gavin crushed him when they were read before the club. ❋ Unknown (1898)