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Sapphic

adjective
1.
A meter used by Sappho and named after her.
2.
Of or relating to or characterized by homosexual relations between woman.  Synonym: lesbian.



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Sapphic ode


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... the Dittochaeon, verses on themes of the Old and New Testaments, may be mentioned in order to complete the list of his works. His mastery of his very varied metres—hexameter, iambic, trochaic and sapphic—is undoubted: everywhere we note the influence of Virgil and Horace, even when these poets are not recalled by echoes of their diction which are constantly greeting ...
— The Hymns of Prudentius • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius


Words linked to "Sapphic" :   rhythmic, Sappho, lesbian, Sapphic ode, homosexual, rhythmical


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