| 单词 | pythian metre |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPythian metre Pythian metre n. (also Pythian meter) [after post-classical Latin Pythium metrum (4th cent.); compare earlier pythiambic n.] now rare a metre consisting of dactylic hexameters. [Said (already by ancient writers) to be so called either from its use in the Pythian oracles, or from the first song of triumph to Apollo on his victory over the Python; the former view is found in Pliny, and both theories in grammarians and metrical writers, from the 4th cent.] ΚΠ 1851 Encycl. Americana 298/2 Grecian tradition attributed the origin of the hexameter to the Delphic oracles, and hence it was called also the theological and Pythian metre. 1890 Cent. Dict. Pythian meter, Pythian verse, the dactylic hexameter: probably so called from its use in the oracles delivered by the Pythia, or, according to ancient writers, from the first song of triumph to Apollo for his victory over the Python. 1943 J. T. Shipley Dict. World Lit. 467 Pythian meter, verse, the dactylic hexameter (Pythios: Apollo, of Delphi. Perhaps from use in the oracles; explained in ancient times as named from Apollo's song of triumph on defeating the Python.). < as lemmas |
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