hatred, ("wronged me, trampling"). One of the uncertainties in the text comes in the word , which indicates that the seaweed has a hold on the castaway. Some scholars prefer to read , indicating that he spews out seaweed. Scholars often contrast the poem's realism with the artificiality of Horace's Epode 10, but not all scholars are willing to go along with this view, citing the Homeric diction as a literary device and the absence of proof that the oath-breaker was ever a real man rather than just a scapegoat or imaginary exemplar. Yet the poet has made the context seem real. Extras In his famous speech On the Crown, the great Athenian rhetor, Demosthenes, denounced his rival Aeschines with the neologism , signifying an iambus devourer or devourer of insults. See also Prosody (Latin) Epodes (Horace) Epode :Category:Iambic poets Notes Citations References Bartol, Krystyna. (1993). Greek Elegy and Iambus: Studies in Ancient Literary Sources. Poznań: Adam Mickiewicz Univ. Press. Gentili, Bruno. 1988. Poetry and its Public in Ancient Greece. Translated by A. T. Cole. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. Kerkhecker, Arnd. (1999). Callimachus’ Book of Iambi. Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ. Press. Kantzios, Ippokratis. 2005. The Trajectory of Archaic Greek Trimeters. Mnemosyne Supplement 265. Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill. Rosen, Ralph M. (1988). Old Comedy and the Iambographic Tradition. American Classical Studies 19. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press. Steinrück, Martin. (2008). The Suitors in the Odyssey: The Clash between Homer and Archilochus. Hermeneutic Commentaries 2. New York: Peter Lang. West, Martin. (1974). Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus''. Berlin: de Gruyter. Ancient Greek poetry