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‖ scazon Prosody.|ˈskeɪzɒn|
Pl. scazons, also scazontes |skəˈzɒntiːz|.
[L., a. Gr. σκάζων, n. use of pres. pple. of σκάζειν to limp, halt.]
A modification of the iambic trimeter, in which a spondee or trochee takes the place of the final iambus; = choliamb. Also scazon iambic.
The name was also applied by some ancient metrists to a similar modification of the trochaic tetrameter catalectic, and to various other metres which are variations of some common type of verse produced by a change in the last foot.
1673O. Walker Educ. xi. 124 Archilochus and Hipponax two very bad Poets..invented those doggrel sorts of Verses, Iambics and Scazons. 1806C. Symmons Life of Milton (1810) 138 On the occasion of Salsilli's illness Milton sent to him those scazons, which are rich in poetic imagery, though inaccurate in their metrical construction. 1869H. Snow Theocritus, Epigr. xix. Notes (1873) 221 The..catalectic scazon iambics. Ibid. xxi. 221 The metre is scazon iambic. 1889J. Jacobs Caxton's æsop 21 the Babrian scazon is..influenced by Latin metre.
Hence † scaˈzontian a., scaˈzontic a., consisting of, written in, scazons; n. = scazon.
1782J. Elphinston tr. Martial Pref. 3 He [Martial] some⁓times..chooses the Iambic stanza..and often the Scazontian. 1845H. Thompson in Encycl. Metrop. X. 412/1 Cneius Matius..wrote Mimiambics, which differed from the Mimes of the two former authors only by being written in scazontics. 1898R. Ellis in Class. Rev. Mar. 121/2 There is a semblance here of a scazontic original. |
