logaoedic

alternative logaedic · alternative logaœdic

1. not comparablecommunicationsOf any metre rhythmically intermediate between ordinary speech (or prose) and song (or poetry), typically combining dactyls and trochees.

   The Glyconeus, which has a logaœdic order.

   1844, Major, Guide Gr. Trag., second edition, page 159

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   Hence this metre was frequently used by the Æolians, and their strophes were principally formed by connecting logaœdic rhythms with trochees, iambi, and Æolic dactyls.

   1840, Karl Otfried Müller (author of the original German), George Cornewall Lewis (translator of chapters I–XXII), “The Æolic School of Lyric Poetry.” (chapter XIII, pages 164–189), in History of the Literature of Ancient Greece (Library of Useful Knowledge), volume I, London: printed by William Clowes and Sons for Baldwin and Cradock, page 171

   Anapæstic Logaœdics are identical in their rhythm with…Logaœdic Dactyls.

   1855, Linwood, Greek Tragic Metres, page 79

   The essential difference between choreic and logaoedic rhythm is that of ictus.

   1883, Jebb, Œdipus Tyran., Introduction, page 72

plural logaoedics · alternative logaedic · alternative logaœdic

1. communicationsAny logaoedic verse.

   Chorees and logaoedics can be extended to Series of six measures.

   1879, J. W. White, transl., Schmidt’s Rhythmic & Metric, § 21, page 65

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   Anapæstic Logaœdics are identical in their rhythm with…Logaœdic Dactyls.

   1855, Linwood, Greek Tragic Metres, page 79