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Hermippus also appears to have written scurrilous iambic poems after the manner of Archilochus. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Other types of works written by Hermippus cited by ancient writers include trimeters and tetrameters .
At first harmless and good-humored, if somewhat coarse, these songs gradually outstripped the bounds of decency; malicious attacks were made upon both gods and men, and the matter became so serious that the law intervened and scurrilous personalities were forbidden by the Twelve Tables (Cicero, De re publica, 4.10; see also Horace epist. 2.1.139).
Scory was at the same time suspected as the author of the scurrilous Leycester's Commonwealth. [8] He did know something of its circulation, to Henry Noel. [11] His father's death in 1585 involved Scory in a chancery case with the new bishop of Hereford. [12] In 1587 the privy council asked Edmund Colles and others to settle the dispute. [13]
One modern commentator has described D'Anvers as "that splendid Oxford satirist" [8] though another characterizes Academia as "ribald, scurrilous doggerel." [ 9 ] Her work has been anthologized in Kissing the Rod (1988), [ 10 ] and Early Modern Women Poets .
Relatively simple acrostics may merely spell out the letters of the alphabet in order; such an acrostic may be called an 'alphabetical acrostic' or abecedarius.These acrostics occur in the Hebrew Bible in the first four of the five chapters of the Book of Lamentations, in the praise of the good wife in Proverbs 31:10-31, and in Psalms 9-10, 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, 119 and 145. [4]
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who gave the invocation shortly before Vance took his oath of office, denounced the remarks as “scurrilous” and “nasty.” Vance has claimed that a concept from medieval Catholic theology — “ordo amoris” in Latin — justifies the Trump administration’s America-first immigration crackdown.
An iamb (/ ˈ aɪ æ m / EYE-am) or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry.Originally the term referred to one of the feet of the quantitative meter of classical Greek prosody: a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in καλή (kalḗ) "beautiful (f.)").
275-294 – The origin of tragedy & its development. To it succeeded the old comedy – vigorous, but scurrilous. The Latin poets deserve some praise, but their great fault is their careless, slovenly style. 295-308 – Genius cannot afford to dispense with the rules of art. The critic has his place in literature.