Usage examples (4)

• ( "Yes," she said, luring me into her tale, "it did involve an asclepiad.")
• Philip Sidney written every asclepiad on the model of Where man's mind hath a freed consideration, every hendecasyllable like Where sweet graces erect the stately...
• What are the different forms of the asclepiad metre in Horace?
• Its line, which reminded us of the Dámah, is well marked by unusually fine vegetation: and the basin bears large clumps of fan-palm, scattered Daum-trees, the giant...