in Lyric Poetry, the third and concluding part of the ode; that which follows the strophe and antistrophe; the ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrophe, and epode. The word is now used as the name of any little verses that succeed one or more great ones. Thus a pentameter after an hexameter is an epode. The term as applied to a book of Horace's poems, signifies merely additional or supplementary.