ithyphallic

Definitions

1. A poem or song in an ithyphallic metre.
2. A lascivious or obscene poem or song.

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Examples

“And vvanton Catullus, comparing a heauie fellovv, vnvvorthily bleſt vvith a Delicacie in the marriage bed, to a log⟳, hath this Ithyphallique: Talis iſte meus Stupor nil videt, nihil audit. [Such a dolt as this one of mine sees nothing, hears nothing.]”

“We may, therefore, assume⟳ two epochs for the Saturnian verse. In the first epoch, until Livius and Saevius, its measure⟳ is yet very unsettled; the rhythm is, however, evidently trochaic. It usually corresponds to two ithyphallics, sometimes with, sometimes without an anacrusis before the first ithyphallic.”

“See⟳ Plutarch, Dêmêtrios, 10, for the title of Καταιβάτης given to Dêmêtrios at Athens, and the altar dedicated to him under that name⟳, and, still more, the account of the flatteries offered to him given by Dêmocharês and the ithyphallics of Douris of Samos, in Athênaois,[…].”

“I omit noticing some edifying Ithyphallics of Savagius, wishing to keep⟳ the proper veil over them, if his grave but somewhat indiscreet worshipper will suffer⟳ it; but certainly these teachers of "great moral lessons" are apt to be found in strange company.”

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