Asclepiad — An asclepiad may be:* A plant of the former family Asclepiadaceae * A a type of metrical line used in lyric poetry * An Asclepiad (Greek) was ancient Greek of uncertain profession, possibly, a physician or priest. References … Wikipedia
Asclepiad — As*cle pi*ad, n. (Gr. & L. Pros.) A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Asclepiad (poetry) — An asclepiad is a line of poetry following a particular metrical pattern. The form is attributed to Asclepiades of Samos and is one of the Aeolic metres. As with other Aeolic metrical lines, the asclepiad is built around a choriamb, to which one… … Wikipedia
asclepiad — ▪ literature Greek lyric verse later used by Latin poets such as Catullus, Horace, and Seneca. The asclepiad consisted of an aeolic nucleus, a choriamb to which were added more choriambs and iambic (iamb) or trochaic (trochee) elements at… … Universalium
asclepiad — noun Etymology: ultimately from Greek asklēpiad , asklēpias celandine, from Asklēpios, Greek god of medicine Date: 1859 milkweed … New Collegiate Dictionary
asclepiad — /əsˈklipiæd/ (say uhs kleepeead) noun a plant belonging to the Asclepiadaceae, or milkweed family of plants. {New Latin Asclēpias the milkweed genus (Greek asklēpias kind of plant, named after Asklēpios Asclepius, the god of medicine)… …
Aeolic verse — is a classification of Ancient Greek lyric poetry referring to the distinct verse forms characteristic of the two great poets of Archaic Lesbos, Sappho and Alcaeus, who composed in their native Aeolic dialect. These verse forms were taken up and… … Wikipedia
Hippocrates — Hippocratic /hip euh krat ik/, Hippocratical, adj. /hi pok reuh teez /, n. ( Father of Medicine ) c460 c377 B.C., Greek physician. * * * born с 460 BC, island of Cos, Greece died с 377, Larissa, Thessaly Greek physician regarded as the father of… … Universalium
Choriambic verse — Choriambic verse, or Choriambics, is the name given to Greek or Latin lyrical poetry in which the metrical unit or foot called the choriambus predominates. The choriambus is a verse foot consisting of a trochee united with and preceding an iambus … Wikipedia
Sappho — For other uses, see Sappho (disambiguation). Bust inscribed Sappho of Eressos, Roman copy of a Greek original of the 5th century BC. Sappho ( … Wikipedia
