Sapphic
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解释:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse.
(a.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.
(n.) A Sapphic verse.
录入:罗兰
解释:
adj. pertaining to Sappho a passionate Greek lyric poetess of Lesbos (c. 600 B.C.): denoting a kind of verse said to have been invented by Sappho.—ns. Sapph′ic-stan′za a metre of Horace the stanzas of four verses each three alike made up of four trochees with a dactyl in the third place; Sapph′ism unnatural passion between women; Sapph′ō a humming-bird.
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