Prosody (Latin) were felt to be especially suited to this role. The Greek poet Archilochus was one of the main exponents of the iambic distich and he provided a model for Horace's Epodes 1-10. The following couplet forms the first two lines of Epode 7. Note that the first syllables in both lines ("Quo" and "ap") are in anceps and thus a spondee appears to have been substituted for an iamb in both the initial feet. Also "ti" in "scelesti" is long by nature and it too is in anceps; the third foot would otherwise be a tribrach (uuu) thanks to the
Catholic epistles brother of Jesus; and so, this Jude should also be a brother of Jesus, despite the fact he does not indicate any such thing in his text. With the exception of the Petrine epistles, both of which may be pseudepigrapha, the seven Catholic epistles were added to the New Testament canon, because early church fathers attributed the anonymous epistles to important people, and attributed the epistles written by people with the same name as important people to those important people. Catholic epistles The Catholic epistles (also called the universal epistles or general epistles) are seven epistles of the New Testament.