Hipponactean

English Etymology From en la:Hipponax -ean. Adjective Relating to or characteristic of the Ancient Greek poet Hipponax; en specifically using choliambic verse. en w:Anne Pippin Burnett Three Archaic Poets: Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho London Duckworth 1983 101 https://archive.org/details/threearchaicpoet0000burn/page/101/mode/1up 0-715-61694-3 The lines are vigorous and full of anger, and they be betray none of the usual Hipponactean buffoonery (unless the reference to 'eating slavish bread' echoes some previous abuse on the score of gluttony). Noun en poetry A Hipponactean verse; en especially a hypercatalectic form of Glyconian verse. en w:James Wood Davidson The Poetry of the Future John B. Alden New York, N.Y. 1888 30 https://archive.org/details/poetryfuture00davigoog/page/n31/mode/1up We dismiss, at the outset, as unnecessary for our purpose, the long and learned-looking array of spondees, pyrrhics, trochees, dactyls, tribrachs and amphimacers with the endless but never nameless array of metres—dimeters, trimeters, Adonics, ithyphallics, Hipponacteans, and the rest; Further reading en eponyms