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According to one meaning of the word, an epode[1] is the third part of an ancient Greek choral ode that follows the strophe and the antistrophe and completes the movement.[2]
The word epode is also used to refer to the second (shorter) line of a two-line stanza of the kind composed by Archilochus and Hipponax in which the first line consists of a dactylic hexameter or an iambic trimeter.[3] (See Archilochian.) It can also be used (as in Horace's Epodes), to refer to poems written in such stanzas.
- ^ From Greek: ἐπῳδός, epodos, "singing to/over, an enchanter."
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Epode". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 707.
- ^ West, M. L. (1987). An Introduction to Greek Metre. Oxford.; p. 31.
