spondeusn.
Obsolete.
= spondee n. Also attributive.
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1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Aviijv The stade Spondeus foote.
1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. I. The two first feete, eyther Dactyli or Spondæi indifferent.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xii. 88 This makes a good Dactill and a good spondeus.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1252 These were the beginnings of the enharmonique Musicke: For first of them they put a Spondæus.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Spondæus, is the Foot of a Latin Verse, consisting of two Syllables, and both of 'em long, as Ingens.
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