sestiad

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Definition of sestiad

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noun

One of six parts.

“In the first impression of 1598, after the line which concludes the second sestiad, as divided by Chapman, “Dang'd downe to hell her loathsome carriage,” are added the words Desunt nonnulla.”
“I have insisted on the necessity of linking Marlowe's and Chapman's sestiads by reading Hero and Leander in its entirety, because doing so reveals to us more clearly and completely the work of each writer in the poem […]”

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From Ancient Greek Σηστιάς (Sēstiás), from Σηστός (Sēstós, “Sestus”).

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