Definition of "iambics" [iambics]

• Plural form of iambic. (noun)

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• "Although Labíd and Antar composed in iambics, the first Kásídah or regular poem in Rajaz was by"
• "Cholmeley, the awful being of whose classic taste in Greek iambics I once stood in awe, sang with great feeling a fragment of lyric literature of which the following was, as far as I remember, the refrain:"
• "Phaedrus, a slave by birth or by subsequent misfortunes, and admitted by Augustus to the honors of a freedman, imitated many of these fables in Latin iambics about the commencement of the Christian era."