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Aristophanic, a. and n.|ˌærɪstəʊˈfænɪk| [ad. L. Aristophanicus, Gr. ἀριστοϕανικός.] A. adj. Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, the Athenian comic dramatist, or his plays; used by, occurring in, resembling that of, or characteristic of Aristophanes.
1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. II. 6 He had laughed with his whole heart, in a true Aristophanic vein. 1827P. W. Buckham Theatre of Greeks (ed. 2) 109 The expressions which the Aristophanic Euripides employs in assailing æschylus. 1835T. Mitchell Acharn. of Aristoph. 148 The word λαῶν occurs in the Aristophanic writings. 1873Symonds Gk. Poets viii. 245 If we are to seek for an approximation to Aristophanic humour, we shall find it perhaps in Rabelais. B. n. A logaœdic tripody beginning with a dactyl (–˘˘{vb}–˘{vb}–˘̄); a first Pherecratic.
1874J. M. Marshall Horati Op. I. p. xxxiv, Sapphic (the greater). Alternately an Aristophanic and a greater Sapphic. |