in ancient poetry, a sort of verse, so called from its consisting either wholly, or in great part, of iambus's. See IAMBUS.

Kuddiman makes two kinds of iambic, viz. dimeter and trimeter; the former containing four feet, and the latter six. And as to the variety of their feet, they consist wholly of iambus's, as in the two following verses of Horace:

Dimeter. \[ \text{Inar} \text{fit} \text{et} \text{fluo} \text{fus} \] Trimeter. \[ \text{Suis} \text{et} \text{i} \text{pfa} \text{Ro} \text{ma vi} \text{ribus} \text{ruit} \]

Or, a dactylus, spondeus, anaepetus, and sometimes tribrachys, obtain in the odd places; and the tribrachys also in the even places, excepting the last.—Examples of all which may be seen in Horace; as,

Dimeter. \[ \text{Canidi} \text{a} \text{tre} \text{clavit} \text{dapes} \] Trimeter. \[ \text{Quo} \text{quo} \text{scel} \text{fi} \text{ru} \text{tis} \text{an} \text{cur} \text{dex} \text{ter} \text{ir} \] \[ \text{Prius} \text{que} \text{ce} \text{cum} \text{feld} \text{in} \text{ferius} \text{mari} \] \[ \text{Altii} \text{vis} \text{alique} \text{cani} \text{bus} \text{hom} \text{cid} \text{He} \text{lorem} \] \[ \text{Pavendum} \text{que} \text{lepo} \text{b aut ad} \text{venam} \text{laque} \text{gruem} \]