anaclasisn.

1784 J. B. Seale Anal. Greek Metres 25 In the intermediate places a second Pæon is occasionally joined to a second or third Epitrite, so that the two Feet together are equal in time to two Ionic Feet. This is called an Ανακλασις.

1830 J. Seager tr. J. G. J. Hermann Elem. Doctr. Metres xxxviii. 98 This method is termed ἀνάκλασις, and the verses themselves ἀνακλώμενοι, because the change in the numbers is not made in one Ionic foot, but in two, the end of the one, and the beginning of the other being changed.

1901 T. D. Goodell Chap. Greek Metric v. 144 Not only were ionic kola extended to eighteen lines, with or without anaklasis, but also the plain iambic and trochaic.

1901 T. D. Goodell Chap. Greek Metric v. 144 Not only were ionic kola extended to eighteen lines, with or without anaklasis, but also the plain iambic and trochaic.

1938 G. D. Thomson tr. Aeschylus Oresteia ii. 327 A rearrangement of the opening syllables (anaclasis).

1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 567/1 The view..that the anacreontic is derived from the ionic dimeter by the interchange of the final long of the first metron with the opening short of the second (‘anaclasis’).