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(1):

(n.) The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe, - the ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrophe, and epode.

(2):

(n.) A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one; as, the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac distich.