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==Names==
The modern standard name for the collection is ''Epodes''. Deriving from the Greek ''epodos stichos'' ('verse in reply'), the term refers to a poetic verse following on from a slightly longer one.{{sfn|Watson|2007|p=94}} Since all poems except ''Epode'' 17 are composed in such an [[Epode|epodic]] form, the term is used with some justification. This naming convention, however, is not attested before the commentary of [[Pomponius Porphyrion]] in the second century AD.{{sfn|Mankin|1995|p=12}} Horace himself, however, referred to his poems as ''iambi'' on several occasions
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