Epode is the last part of the chorus of the ancient Greeks, which they sung after the strophe and antistrophe, when the singers had returned to their original place. The name was applied also to a species of lyric poem invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one, as the Epodes of Horace. See CHORUS.
Epode
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 404
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