EPODE, a Greek ode, and (according to some authorities) elaborated by Stesichorus, and as exhibited, e.g., in the plays and in Pindar, was based on a system of strophe, antistrophe (these exactly corresponding) and a concluding epode (Eir(..p6os 7replobos) ; a system which the reader may see quite fairly repre sented in Gray's Bard and Progress of Poesy. At the conclusion of the antistrophe the two halves of the chorus are said to have combined and sung the epode together (or, in certain cases, to have left it to the coryphaeus or leader). Though the Latins found Pindar impossible of imitation, certain poems of Catullus and Horace bear a rough resemblance to this form. It must be distinguished from the epode of Archilochus, in which (as a rule) the iambic was used as a vehicle of satire. This class is best known from Horace's Epodon Liber, written in con fessed dependence on Archilochus, and, like its model, sarcastic and often coarse. It is this class, so different from the genuine epode of Sophocles and Pindar, that has almost appropriated the name.