They are genuinely Pindaric, that is, with corresponding strophes, antistrophes and epodes.

To Sicily we trace the germs of Greek comedy, and the addition of the epode to the strophe and anti-strophe.

The epode soon took a firm place in choral poetry, which it lost when that branch of literature declined.

His odes, epodes, satires, and epistles are full of his own personality and history.

He was also the first to make use of the arrangement of verses called the epode.