Fragments
Composing in the limping choliambic meter he is credited with inventing, Hipponax turned iambic invective into scurrilous, self-mocking poems of poverty and grudge that became the model for later satiric verse.
Composing in the limping choliambic meter he is credited with inventing, Hipponax turned iambic invective into scurrilous, self-mocking poems of poverty and grudge that became the model for later satiric verse.
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