How To Use Asclepiad In A Sentence
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What are the different forms of the asclepiad metre in Horace?
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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On the small flats, the apple-gum grew with a few scattered Moreton Bay ash trees; on the bergues of the river we found the white cedar (Melia azedarach), Clerodendron; an asclepiadaceous shrub with large triangular seed-vessels; and, on the hills, the blood-wood and stringy-bark.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
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With them Horace not only introduced the various Sapphic, Alcaic and Asclepiadic lines to Latin but he set the carmine/ode and lyric agenda for the ages to come.
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Other prominent succulent plant families include Euphorbiaceae, Asclepiadaceae (milkweeds and stapelias), Aloaceae and Portulacaceae (portulaca).
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Philip Sidney written every asclepiad on the model of Where man's mind hath a freed consideration, every hendecasyllable like Where sweet graces erect the stately banner, the adjustment of accent and quantity thus attained might, I think, have induced greater poets than he to make the experiment on a larger scale.
Poems and Fragments
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( "Yes," she said, luring me into her tale, "it did involve an asclepiad.")
A Conversation with Rabih Alameddine, author of The Hakawati
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Had Sir Philip Sidney written every asclepiad on the model of _Where man's mind hath a freed consideration_, every hendecasyllable like _Where sweet graces erect the stately banner_, the adjustment of accent and quantity thus attained might, I think, have induced greater poets than he to make the experiment on a larger scale.
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus
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The Asclepiades treated patients in the temples, but the Pythagoreans visited from house to house, and from city to city, and were known as the ambulant or periodic physicians.
Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
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Its line, which reminded us of the Dámah, is well marked by unusually fine vegetation: and the basin bears large clumps of fan-palm, scattered Daum-trees, the giant asclepiad El-‘Ushr,222 thickets of tamarisk and scatters of the wild castor-plant, whose use is unknown to the Arabs.
The Land of Midian
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Its line, which reminded us of the Dámah, is well marked by unusually fine vegetation: and the basin bears large clumps of fan-palm, scattered Daum-trees, the giant asclepiad El-Ushr, [EN#64] thickets of tamarisk and scatters of the wild castor-plant, whose use is unknown to the Arabs.
The Land of Midian — Volume 2
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The first celebrates in asclepiadic alternating with glyconic metre, the birth of the Son co-equal with the Father:
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
