(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:45:52

Am`e*bae"um (#), n. [L. amebaeus, Gr. , alternate; L. amoebaeum carmen, Gr. , a responsive song, fr. change.]

A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

 

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