A kind of verse.
Chôliambos: eidos stichou.
cf. ps.-Herodian 152.
"Limping iambics": iambic trimeter with the next-to-last syllable long instead of short. Used in satirical or comic poems, notably by
Hipponax (
iota 588) and
Babrius (
beta 7). See LSJ at web address 1 below.
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