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Hexameter is a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet (a "foot" here is the pulse, or major accent, of words in an English line of poetry; in...

| — ∪, ∪ | — ∪ ∪ | — ∪ ∪ | — — Homer's hexameters contain a higher proportion of dactyls than later hexameter poetry. They are also characterized by a...

used the rhythmic hexameter for literary compositions, and many of the examples are from epitaphs. One advantage which rhythmic hexameters gave Commodian...

few decades Dutch alexandrines had been transformed into strict iambic hexameters with a caesura after the third foot. From the Low Countries the accentual-syllabic...

related to the common association of the goddess with torches. In Greek hexameters from Selinus dating to the fourth century BC, there is mention of "goddesses...

Press. p. 532. ISBN 0691004838. A. A. Markley (Autumn 1998). "Barbarous Hexameters and Dainty Meters: Tennyson's Uses of Classical Versification". Studies...

to his death at Troy. Only about one and a half books (1,127 dactylic hexameters) were completed before the poet's death. What remains is an account of...

reverse order. The poem comprised eleven books of verse in epic dactylic hexameters. The Cypria, in the written form in which it was known in classical Greece...

using the terms monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, and octameter, although seven or more feet in a line is uncommon...

Greco-Roman antiquity at 21,286 lines, composed in Homeric dialect and dactylic hexameters, the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus, his expedition to...

this line is in the hexameter verse used in Greek and Latin epic poetry. All other Latin verses cited in this page are hexameters as well. The fact that...

other parts of the poems. The poems were composed in unrhymed dactylic hexameters; the ancient Greek metre was quantity-based rather than stress-based....

original Homeric Greek's line count and reflected its traditional dactylic hexameter by employing the traditional English iambic pentameter meter. Her translation...

Merlin concerning the Seven Kings, is a 12th-century poem written in Latin hexameters by John of Cornwall, which he claimed was based or revived from a lost...

his aloofness. The biographical tradition asserts that Virgil began the hexameter Eclogues (or Bucolics) in 42 BC and it is thought the collection was published...

the later didactic poems of Hesiod, which were composed in the dactylic hexameter. A variety of other metres were used for lyric poetry and for classical...

lines composed in dactylic hexameter, sometimes called Homeric hexameter—a metre with six metrical feet. The form of hexameter is catelectic, meaning that...

These represent an oracle, or a combination of two oracles, of seventy hexameters in all. They report the birth of an androgyne, and prescribe a long list...

continuous mythological narrative in fifteen books written in dactylic hexameters. He is also known for works in elegiac couplets such as Ars Amatoria ("The...

writing in the fifth century BC, describes the Pythia speaking in dactylic hexameters. The name Pythia is derived from "pythia hiereia" (Greek: πυθία ἱέρεια)...

The 3rd-century Christian African writer Commodian, who wrote irregular hexameters in a popular style, favoured this kind with five word-accents. Thurneysen...

" Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (Satires and Epistles) and caustic iambic poetry (Epodes). The hexameters are amusing yet serious works...

2023-12-15. W. Pinkerton, "Machine Hexameters" Notes and Queries Series 2, No. 1, 1856, 57-8 online E. Bensly, "Latin Hexameters by Machinery: John Peter" Notes...

particularly with the general Stilicho. His work, written almost entirely in hexameters or elegiac couplets, falls into three main categories: poems for Honorius...

needed] The Aeneid, like other classical epics, is written in dactylic hexameters: each line consists of six metrical feet made up of dactyls (one long...

used a different poetic structure: It certainly would be a relief to the hexameters to let them stretch their legs a little more at their ease; still for...

He also wrote dactylic hexameters in conversational and epistolary style. Virgil, his contemporary, used dactylic hexameters for both light and serious...

Argonautica. The Founding of Naucratis: Athenaeus quotes six and a bit hexameters and provides a commentary, concerning Apollo's abduction of Ocyrhoe and...

(see Cyclic Poets). The poem comprised two books of verse in dactylic hexameter. The Iliou persis was probably composed in the seventh century BCE, but...

hexameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of six iambic feet. In English verse, "alexandrine" is typically used to mean "iambic hexameter"...

classic. It was composed around 1200, and was all written in leonine hexameters. Even after several centuries, with the advent of printing, it appeared...

least half a dozen attempts to translate the entire Iliad or Odyssey in hexameters; the last in 1945. Perhaps the most fluent of them was by J. Henry Dart...

L. D. Cole (Balliol) for hexameters: Virgil's Aeneid 2.162-249. 1897: W. F. Nicholson (Balliol) for Theocritean hexameters: Thomson's Castle of Indolence...

antiquity. It has 21,286 lines composed in Homeric Greek and dactylic hexameters, the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus, his expedition to...

of one line of poetry in dactylic hexameter followed by a line in dactylic pentameter. Because dactylic hexameter is used throughout epic poetry, and...

Similarly, "dactylic hexameter", comprises six feet per line, of which the dominant kind of foot is the "dactyl". Dactylic hexameter was the traditional...

An anapaest (/ˈænəpiːst, -pɛst/; also spelled anapæst or anapest, also called antidactylus) is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. In classical quantitative...

Such a position, which is normally two short syllables, as in a dactylic hexameter, is known as a biceps element. Resolution is generally found in Greek...

philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through...

the poem into the same number of iambic pentameter lines as there are hexameters in the original", writing: "In order to achieve that level of compression...

literatures. Vitězslav Nezval's poem "Edison" is written in trochaic hexameter. In Greek and Latin, the syllabic structure deals with long and short...

The first Greek book on astronomy, by Thales, took the form of dactylic hexameters, as did many works of pre-Socratic philosophy. Both Plato and the Pythagoreans...

adoption of the hexameter and other Greek verse forms. Quintus Ennius is the poet who is generally credited with introducing the Greek hexameter in Latin, and...

(see Cyclic poets). The poem comprised five books of verse in dactylic hexameter. Very few fragments of the Aethiopis survive today; Proclus's summary...

Seasons) is a landmark of the Lithuanian fiction literature, written in hexameter. With a mix of Classicism, Sentimentalism and Romanticism, the Lithuanian...

Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic...

Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775. It is in quantitative dactylic hexameters as often used for Latin and Ancient Greek poetry. It was published as...

collection of moral exhortations comprising 71 lines written in dactylic hexameter. They are traditionally attributed to the Pythagorean philosophers. The...

Eutychius Proclus. The poem comprised two books of verse in dactylic hexameter. In Antiquity, the Telegony may have also been known as the Thesprotis...

patterns were based on syllable weight rather than stress. In the dactylic hexameters of Classical Latin and Classical Greek, for example, each of the six feet...

Oracula Sibyllina) are a collection of oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters ascribed to the Sibyls, prophetesses who uttered divine revelations in...

although overall in Greek hexameters, the dactylic foot is slightly more common (in the ratio 60-40), while in Latin hexameters the spondee is more common...

foot. For example, the epics of Homer and Virgil are written in dactylic hexameter. This term suggests a line of six dactyls, but a spondee can be substituted...

Satyrae hecatostica : one hundred satirical compositions in hexameters....

Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)...

Periegetes of Alexandria's Οικουμένης περιήγησης Periegesis of the World, in hexameter, usually translated Survey of the World Avienius's Latin translation of...

poem'. In Ancient Greek, 'epic' could refer to all poetry in dactylic hexameter (epea), which included not only Homer but also the wisdom poetry of Hesiod...

in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme of these lines is A B A B B C B C C {\displaystyle \mathrm...

(see Cyclic poets). The poem comprised four books of verse in dactylic hexameter, the heroic meter. The Little Iliad was probably composed in the latter...

writings." (trans. Thomas Taylor, 1816) A number of Greek religious poems in hexameters were attributed to Orpheus, though only a few such works are extant. Lost...

hexahedron is a polyhedron with six faces, with a cube being a special case Hexameter is a poetic form consisting of six feet per line A "hex nut" is a nut...

verse-form which, in classical Greek and Latin poetry, follows a dactylic hexameter to make up an elegiac couplet. It features two halves, each consisting...

Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic...

Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)...

Plautus. In the elevated style of Ennius's Annals, written in dactylic hexameters, brevis breviāns hardly appears, apart from quasi, ubi, tibi, sibi (alongside...

Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)...

Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem is a Latin dactylic hexameter and the official motto of the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the University...

(see Cyclic Poets). The poem comprised five books of verse in dactylic hexameter. Both the date of composition of the Nostoi and the date that it was set...

in three syllables to satisfy the requirements of the poem's dactylic hexameters. Motto of the Sydney Church of England Grammar School and others. vitam...

the elegies (where it occurs in 63% of hexameters and 56% of pentameters) than in the epigrams (56% of hexameters and 36% of pentameters). On the whole...

by a long one. In Greek and Latin poetry, it is found in the dactylic hexameter and the first half of a dactylic pentameter, and also in anapaestic metres...

history of the Boeotian city of Thebes. They were composed in dactylic hexameter verse and believed to be recorded between 750 and 500 BC. The epics took...

Odyssey Rediscovering Homer Hysteron proteron Epithets in Homer Dactylic hexameter Translations English translations On Translating Homer Chapman (1614–1615)...

that require a long syllable at the end of a line, including dactylic hexameters and iambic trimeters. It can also be found in the centre of a line in...

surviving classical Latin and Greek prosody was the hexameter. In modern Greek poetry hexameter was replaced by line of fifteen syllables. In French...

was usually written in saturnians, but later it could be in hexameters, iambic hexameters, distichs or in prose. Characteristic of the elogium is the...

while still a student at Oxford, translated Pope's Messiah into Latin hexameters. The translation appeared in Miscellany of Poems (1731), edited by John...

lifetime. Like all of Virgil's works, the Eclogues are composed in dactylic hexameters. Several scholars have attempted to identify the organizational principles...

metre alone is of interest. Although they are professedly written in hexameters, the rules of quantity are sacrificed to accent. The first four lines...

written by ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC. It is in dactylic hexameter and contains 828 lines. At its center, the Works and Days is a farmer's...

a purely fictional creation. The inscription is composed in dactylic hexameters (lines 1–6), with scriptio plena (line 3 δὲ ἐπάτησα Ἀπολλωνίαν = δ' ἐπάτησ'...

Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic...

to some extent suggested by Johann Heinrich Voss's Luise, an idyll in hexameters, which was first published in 1782–1784. Goethe's work is set around 1792...

Joanna Baillie's "Hay making". Greek epic, in dactylic hexameter, as is Latin epic whether in hexameter or (in very old poets) Saturnian. Poetic dramatic dialogue...

Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)...

Ordo Urbium Nobilium is a Latin poem in dactylic hexameter by Decimus Magnus Ausonius. It was written after a journey Ausonius took through the Roman...

the metron as having two long elements does not apply to the dactylic hexameter or to the dochmiac metre, however. Some scholars regard the dactyl (–...

Hieronymus Vida (Marco Girolamo Vida), which describes in Latin Virgilian hexameters a chess game between Apollo and Mercury in the presence of the other gods...

and palliatae), as well as his most famous work, a historical epic in hexameters called the Annales. Other minor works include the Epicharmus, Epigrammata...

hexameter poem (958 lines) on the nature of venomous animals and the wounds which they inflict. The other, Alexipharmaca, consists of 630 hexameters treating...

history of Latin poetry and prose. The form saeculorum is impossible in hexameter verse: the ae and o are long, the u short by position. The word seclorum...

during the Council of Constance. The first verse translation, into Latin hexameters, was made in 1427–1431 by Matteo Ronto [fr]. The first translation of...

Kýklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria, the...

of Troy...) This line uses caesura in the medial position. In dactylic hexameter, a caesura occurs any time the ending of a word does not coincide with...

an eclectic by nature. The motto was extracted from the first of two hexameters, as indicated in bold: Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri, – quo...

Twenty-six trochaic tetrameters, De qualitate vitae, and five graceful hexameters, De rosis, are also attributed to him. Florus was also an established...

is the first poem in the Musæ Suethizantes, the Hercules composed in hexameter, with names and fables borrowed from the ancient Greeks. Stiernhielm was...

posterity. Some suppose that the iambic lines, which alternated with the hexameters in the Margites, were inserted by Pigres. He was the first poet, apparently...

the 2nd-century BC Greek poet Nicander of Colophon. It is a 958-line hexameter poem describing the nature of venomous creatures, including snakes, spiders...

would have done a tolerable job of reinforcing the rhythms of Latin hexameters: Patres conscripti took a boat, and went to Philippi; Boatum est upsettum...

Alcmanic) strophe, which consists of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic tetrameter. A dactylic hexameter, followed by an iambic dimeter + dactylic...

the Iliad in hexameters in a poetical dialect, like the original. He notes the German translations of the Iliad and Odyssey into hexameters by Johann Heinrich...

was, however, designed with a different function, which was to produce hexameters instead of sound. The Euphonia was exhibited with a female mask covering...

The Ilias Latina is a short Latin hexameter version of the Iliad of Homer that gained popularity in Antiquity and remained popular through the Middle...

Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic...

because it was used as the language of epic poetry, typically in dactylic hexameter, by poets such as Hesiod and Theognis of Megara. Some compositions in...

epic poet, he wrote verses in dactylic hexameter, but in a conversational and epistolary style. Virgil's hexameters are generally regarded as "the supreme...

Gesta Roberti Wiscardi ("The Deeds of Robert Guiscard"), written in hexameters, is one of the principal contemporary sources for the Norman conquest...

and Fulgentius. A seventy-line hexameter poem and two lines of iambic trimeter attributed to her survive; the hexameters are now generally thought to have...

otherwise known as Bucolic poem 11, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. Its main character, the Cyclops Polyphemus, has appeared in other works...

the word order may be dictated by the metrical constraints of dactylic hexameter. "Flamen | Encyclopedia.com". Forsythe, Gary, A Critical History of Early...

the obelisk The pedestal's east face bears an inscription in five Latin hexameters. This is slightly broken at the bottom but it was transcribed in full...

Crassus was a Roman writer who translated the Greek Iliad into Latin hexameters. Nothing about his life is known. He may have lived in the early 1st century...

Sermones) is a collection of satirical poems written in Latin dactylic hexameters by the Roman poet Horace. Published probably in 35 BC and at the latest...

unlike the modern times he lived in. The poem is written in dactylic hexameter, the meter of epic poetry, such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil's...

γυμνάσιον τὸ ἐπικαλουμένον τοῦ Ζευξίππου). This text, consisting of 416 hexameters, forms the second book of the Palatine Anthology. The writer's chief models...

helping him to win the chariot race. The inscription, which is written in hexameter, reads: [...Π]ολύζαλος μ'ἀνέθηκ[ε... τ]ὸν ἄεξ εὐόνυμ'Ἀπόλλ[ον], which...

had been sent to him for his opinion, and he gives examples of English hexameters illustrative of the principles enunciated in the correspondence. The opening...

Greek: Κάμινος, Kaminos), or "Potters" (Κεραμεῖς, Kerameis), is a 23-line hexameter poem that was variously attributed to Homer or Hesiod during antiquity...

Dracontius was the author of the Orestis Tragoedia, a poem of some 1,000 hexameters, which in language, metre, and general treatment of the subject exhibits...

alone for days and nights..." Pushkin also penned an epigram in Homeric hexameters, which unfavourably compares one-eyed Gnedich with the blind Greek poet:...

of Zeus Funeral games for Patroclus Trojan Battle Order Study Dactylic hexameter Homeric scholarship Homeric Question Chorizontes Jørgensen's law Historicity...

speech by Corydon. The poem has 73 lines, and is written in the dactylic hexameter metre. Eclogues 2 and 3 are thought to be the earliest of Virgil's Eclogues...

Christi Iesu beneficiis as the same person. Twenty-four strophes of three hexameters each, on scenes from the Old and New Testaments, survive attributed to...

senate of that city in Hellenic style (i.e., an encomium cast in Homeric hexameters) and distributed funds for the repair of its buildings. She was very conscious...

three verses are correct hexameters, and the text may originally have been made up entirely of hexameters, or a mixture of hexameters and pentameters. The...

Odyssey Rediscovering Homer Hysteron proteron Epithets in Homer Dactylic hexameter Translations English translations On Translating Homer Chapman (1614–1615)...

Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)...

otherwise known as Bucolic poem 6, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. The exact date of its composition is unknown. It references characters...

Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)...

match the metre, but not always. Lucilius also wrote satire in dactylic hexameters, a practice later followed by Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. A different...

originally from Tegernsee Abbey •St. Florian, Stiftsbibliothek (2 leaves) Verse form leonine hexameters Subject adventures of a knight from youth to adulthood...

poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. The poem consists of 19,458 dactylic hexameters, as compared with the 15,693 of Homer's Iliad. At Schulpforta, the classical...

Clough, Arthur Hugh The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich 1848 1,870 c. 1,870 hexameter Cowper, William The Task 1785 blank verse Crane, Hart The Bridge 1930...

Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)...

Ars amatoria is composed in elegiac couplets, rather than the dactylic hexameters, which are more usually associated with the didactic poem. The work was...

one consisting of a dactyl followed by a spondee, as at the end of a hexameter: like Jeremy Taylor. Aleister Crowley fulfilled these conditions and Aleister...

in three syllables to satisfy the requirements of the poem's dactylic hexameters. Motto of the Sydney Church of England Grammar School and others. vitam...

from the founding of Rome to his own time. He adopted the Greek dactylic hexameter, which became the standard verse form for Roman epics. He became well...

Ἀθεναίον τὸν ἀγο̑να (Hexameter 3) τὸν Μα[ραθο̑νι πρὸ H]ελένον, ο[. . .] (Hexameter 4) παισὶν Ἀθεναίον μν[εμα . . .] (Hexameter 5) [Kallimachos the pole]march...

occasionally found in the fragments of Early Latin tragedy and in Ennius's hexameters in a passage quoted by Apuleius (Apol. 39). But apart from in certain...

Heracleidae. There is extant a Latin epic poem, consisting of about 1000 hexameters, called Orestes Tragoedia, which has been ascribed to Dracontius of Carthage...

Latin hexameters. Offenders were frequently set 100 hexameters by Library members, or, for more serious offences, Georgics (more than 500 hexameters) by...

Panegyric to Sigismund III Vasa, visiting capital Vilnius, first hexameter in Lithuanian, 1589....

on Anastasius mentioned above, in 312 hexameters with a short iambic introduction A translation in 1087 hexameters of the verse-form geographical survey...

Seriously: Erotic Magic and Conditional Curses in the Earliest Inscribed Hexameters". Classical Antiquity. 15 (1): 77–112. doi:10.2307/25011032. JSTOR 25011032...

Octavian the general. Virgil's model for composing a didactic poem in hexameters is the archaic Greek poet Hesiod, whose poem Works and Days shares with...

the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye…"), and the lord Berowne does, too—a hexameter sonnet ("If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?")–a form...

handling of the dactylic hexameter was not as masterful or fluent as Homer's and one modern scholar refers to his "hobnailed hexameters". His use of language...

undergraduate classical studies programmes. Lattimore matched the dactylic hexameter of the original Homeric text; it is regarded as a generally faithful line-for-line...

from the land of the Hyperboreans. A number of Greek religious poems in hexameters were also attributed to Orpheus, as they were to similar miracle-working...

appealing to the middle class reader. Reinecke Fuchs by Goethe is a poem in hexameters, in twelve parts, written 1793 and first published 1794. Goethe adapted...

eternal life.) As this example of tripartiti dactylici caudati (dactylic hexameter rhyming couplets divided into three) shows, the internal rhymes of leonine...

hymn.' This length is scanned like the first four feet of the dactylic hexameter (giving rise to the name dactylic tetrameter a priore). Thus, a spondee...

Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic...

gestis (also known as De spiritualis historiae gestis), in classical hexameters, in five books, dealing with the Biblical themes of original sin, expulsion...

readers to Epicurean philosophy. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through...

categorized as lyric poetry, but he experimented with many forms, including hexameter and free verse. His published poetry shows great versatility, using anapestic...

A recipe for Moretum was handed down in a Latin poem of 122 dactylic hexameters attributed to Virgil under the title Moretum in the so-called Appendix...

works, in particular the epic of Thors Reise til Jotunheim, the poem in hexameters called Langelandsreisen, and the bewitching fantasy Aladdin (1805). At...

Hrabanus Maurus, rarely uses the golden line. These poets use a variety of hexameters praised by Diomedes: rhopalic verses, echo verses, and reciprocal verses...

rhyming fourteeners. For Odyssey, he changed the blank verse and dactylic hexameter of the original Homeric Greek to rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter...

Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic...

the civil war. The poem has 83 lines, and is written in the dactylic hexameter metre. - 1 A herdsman, Meliboeus, comes across another herdsman, Tityrus...

poetry intended to be read rather than sung. Two poems in classical Latin hexameters survive. One is the remarkable Ecloga de calvis, a poem of 146 lines in...

genuinely excited by that kind of romantic story." "The Highwayman" uses hexameter that mixes iambs and anapaests. The rhythm is suggestive of the foot falls...

pp. 140–141. Kiparsky, P. (2018). "Indo-European origins of the Greek hexameter". In Hackstein, O., & Gunkel, D. (2018). Language and Meter (pp. 77–128)...

Odyssey Rediscovering Homer Hysteron proteron Epithets in Homer Dactylic hexameter Translations English translations On Translating Homer Chapman (1614–1615)...

priestess at Delphi, or of his possible son Delphus, and the inventor of the hexameter verses, a type of poetic metre. In some studies, the phrase "know thyself"...

Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem Evangeline (1847), which is in dactylic hexameter: This is the / forest prim- / eval. The / murmuring / pines and the /...

iamb, it was not associated with a particular poetic meter, such as the hexameter, tetrameter, or trimeter, and so produced a sound not overly poetical...

Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)...

aloud with attention to pauses and phrasing, and to scan the dactylic hexameter verse. Students should be given extensive practice in reading at sight...

ΑΛ λα μοι • ΑΜ φο δυ • ΣΗ ι δα • ΙΦ ρο νι • ΔΑΙ ε ται • Η ΤΟΡ Dactylic hexameter depends on the sequence of long and short (or heavy and light) syllables...

written in hexameter verse, and were considered to have been strikingly fulfilled. Apocryphal oracular pronouncements in dactylic hexameters circulated...

Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)...

Seriously: Erotic Magic and Conditional Curses in the Earliest Inscribed Hexameters". Classical Antiquity. 15 (1): 77–112. doi:10.2307/25011032. ISSN 0278-6656...

at sea. Such epitaphs were frequently in metrical form, usually either hexameter or elegiacs. Many of them have been collected, and they form an interesting...

His humorous didactic poem Hedypatheia ('Life of Luxury'), written in hexameters but known only from quotations, advises a gastronomic reader on where...

his translation of the Iliad, Pope changed the metre from the dactylic hexameter used by the Homeric Greek text into heroic couplets, rhyming pairs of...

315/310  – 240 BC) was a Greek didactic poet. His major extant work is his hexameter poem Phenomena (Ancient Greek: Φαινόμενα, Phainómena, "Appearances"; Latin:...

accompanying them. An example here demonstrates a familiarity with Virgil and hexameter verse. On the doorpost of the shop near pictures of Aeneas and Romulus...

romanized: tà meth’ Hómēron, lit. 'Things After Homer') is an epic poem in Greek hexameter verse by Quintus of Smyrna. Probably written in the 3rd century AD, it...

Trollope The Bertrams 1859 "a commoner", "stood forth to spout out the Latin hexameters, and to receive the golden medal" (page 12) Lord Bognor Harold Nicolson...

poem, Precepts of Chiron, has been lost. However, fragments in heroic hexameters that survive in quotations are considered to belong to it. The common...

after 127. Juvenal wrote at least 16 poems in the verse form dactylic hexameter. These poems cover a range of Roman topics. This follows Lucilius—the...

 'forests' or 'materials') is a collection of Latin occasional poetry in hexameters, hendecasyllables, and lyric meters by Publius Papinius Statius (c. 45...

about them are possible (consider e.g. infectious diseases, dactyls in hexameters, deaths from horse kicks, births of great men)." Despite the fact that...

fiction epic poem, an odyssey in classical Homeric Greek, with its parallel hexameter translation into Czech. This was published shortly after his death, in...

and hendecasyllable — lines of 6, 8, 10, and 11 syllables, respectively hexameter — a line of 6 metrical feet, which is generally 12 syllables "Jacob of...

style, writing in Latin and specific verse. He commonly wrote in Leonine hexameter. A poem written this way would consist of six metrical feet per line....

to a series of 4th-century BC Greek funerary inscriptions in dactylic hexameter. Dead souls drank from Lethe so they would not remember their past lives...

writings: Geschichte des deutschen Hexameters und Pentameters bis auf Klopstock, 1831 – History of German hexameters and pentameters prior to Klopstock...

possibly by Commodian. The Catholic Encyclopedia describes it as "doggerel hexameters". Carmen de Iona propheta (Poem about the Prophet Jonah), possibly by...

century. In his poem dated 371, called Mosella, which was published in 483 hexameters, this poet of the Late Antiquity and teacher at the Trier Imperial Court...

versification of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae in Latin epic hexameters. It retains Geoffrey's overall sequence and structure, but expands upon...

verse in the history of Russian literature. The iambic tetrameter and hexameter verse and the ten-line odic stanza which he developed had a lasting role...

and gravy cover; Eat them, you'll be strong all over." The poem is in hexameters, and therefore sounds like a lampoon of the work of Archestratus, although...

Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)...

that the poet Olen was the first oracle there and the inventor of the hexameter. Both Olen and the Hypoboreans were more usually associated with the sanctuary...

eleven volumes of prose are augmented by one on gardens (Volume 10), in hexameter verse. Volumes 3 and 4 delve into the technical aspects of viticulture...

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they were formed into memorial lines. Such strange words in difficult hexameter scansion, are by no means easy to memorise. The vowel or consonant, which...

spernit senipedem stilum Thalia, Thalia scorns the six-foot style [i.e. hexameter], ex quo septipedes videt patronos. since she sees seven-foot patrons...

important division of the Damasine inscriptions. They are written in hexameters, a few in pentameters. The best known celebrate the temporary burial of...

calendars household management Book 10 is written entirely in dactylic hexameter verse, in imitation of, or homage to, Virgil. It may initially have been...

telling of the story of Proserpine in the Underworld is, at over 300 hexameters, twice as long as Bulfinch's; from which the latter omits several subplots...

called hexameters. Thomas Nashe in his preface to Greene's Menaphon ridiculed this performance as his heroicall poetrie, infired ... with an hexameter furie...

verse, which included couplets consisting of a hexameter line followed by a pentameter line. A hexameter line contains six metrical feet while a pentameter...

if we accept the assertion of Hephaestion (p. 31), that the choriambic hexameter, of which Philiscus claimed the invention, had been previously used by...

in neighboring words are in hiatus. Homer uses correption in dactylic hexameter: Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης...

Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic...

D. Stephens. Similar laws which have been discovered in the dactylic hexameter are that if a word ends the fifth or fourth foot it is almost never, or...

Cologne in 1702. On the wall, the poet probably painted the meter of the hexameter in red. There is a candle in the bottle on the green tiled stove, next...

included his most famous productions, one hundred and one riddles in Latin hexameters. Each of them is a complete picture, and one of them, De creatura, runs...

theological works is Isagoge, a shortened version of the Bible written in Latin hexameter style. Other works are Flores Sapientiæ Divinæ and Piæ Precatiunculæ....

her ravings were "translated" by the priests of the temple into elegant hexameters. It has been speculated that the ancient writers, including Plutarch who...

in literary criticism since the Renaissance. The poem was written in hexameter verse as an Epistle (or Letter) to Lucius Calpurnius Piso (the Roman senator...

dominant style for centuries. Michael Drout states "Aldhelm wrote Latin hexameters better than anyone before in England (and possibly better than anyone...

Architrenius is a medieval allegorical and satirical poem in hexameters by Johannes de Hauvilla (also known as Johannes de Altavilla or Jean de Hauteville)...

been identified with a correspondent of Procopius of Gaza. His poem (340 hexameter lines) on the story of Hero and Leander is considered the most beautiful...

Archilochus and Hipponax in which the first line consists of a dactylic hexameter or an iambic trimeter. (See Archilochian.) It can also be used (as in...

backwards..." The second line refers to the fact that certain dactylic hexameter lines, if the words are arranged in the reverse order, turn into sotadeans...

England. He wrought the result of his observations into some elegant Latin hexameters, which he translated into English heroic verse, and published under the...

Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic...

Leap month: Mercedonius or Intercalaris. This image preserves only the hexameter line of the Latin distich, which reads in full: umbrarum est alter, quo...

have a metrical complexity, making extensive use of meters like dactylic hexameter. The title phrase appears in the chorus. The song includes several shout-outs...

poetic model, have also been proposed) written in traditional dactylic hexameters, which recounts Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece. The Argonautica was...

its various inflections) cannot be used in works composed in dactylic hexameter or dactylic pentameter. For Romance language poetry, the cretic has been...

Achilles. Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases...

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special prize at Otepää Parish Rhymed Chronicle awards for his poem "Hexameter of Päidla". His father was poet, playwright, literary critic and translator...

fifth eclogue (Doris et Alcon; 78 hexameters) is a love-story. The sixth eclogue (Caprea, "The She-Goat"; 103 hexameters) was a pastoral elegy composed on...

elegiac couplets, with each couplet comprising the traditional dactylic hexameter and dactylic pentameter. This use of this classical meter was uncommon...

Lit. 306,6). Mention may here be made of the fragments of two short hexameter poems known as the Einsiedeln Eclogues, which share similarities with...

Africa is an epic poem in Latin hexameters by the 14th-century Italian poet Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca). It tells the story of the Second Punic War,...

This book contains one of the most complete lists of types of dactylic hexameters in antiquity, including the teres versus, which may (or may not) be the...

1610, and was buried in his church. In 1608 Sandsbury published Latin hexameters, entitled Ilium in Italiam. Oxonia ad Protectionem Regis sui omnium optimi...

created isopsephs, epigrams with equinumeral distichs, where the first hexameter and pentameter equal the next two verses in numerical value. He addressed...

offices. Those Vitœ were frequently composed in hexameters or distichs. From them various couples of hexameters or a distich were taken to be used as antiphon...

location missing publisher (link) West, M. L. (1986). "The Singing of Hexameters: Evidence from Epidaurus". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik...

the second book of Satires is a series of poems composed in dactylic hexameter by the Roman poet Horace. Satires 2.5 stands out in the work for its unique...

Wipo strews short snatches of hexameter poetry throughout the work, and appends a nine verse canticle in rhymed hexameters, which he wrote at the time of...

brevis in longo at the end of the line). For example, in the dactylic hexameter, much use is made of biceps syllables, but there is no anceps and no resolution:...

text. He does mention, however, that Moses composed a song to God in hexameter—a rather unusual (and Greek) metrical scheme for ancient Hebrew. Josephus...

Some fragments use meters from non-Aeolic traditions (e.g. dactylic hexameter, or the Ionic meter of Sappho fr. 134). The versification of Pindar and...

qualities, are on the one hand, Arnold's unconvincing advocacy of English hexameters and his creation of a kind of literary absolute in the "grand style,"...

impassable threshold. The answers were delivered, as in Delphi, in classical hexameters. But at Delphi, nothing was written; at Didyma, inquiries and answers...

Vosmaer undertook the gigantic task of translating Homer into Dutch hexameters, and he lived just long enough to see this completed and revised. In 1873...

the last time the gods visited mortals. Poem 64 was written in dactylic hexameter, the epic meter. This poem demonstrates an important trait of Neoteric...

one of the nymphs of the mountain. There is extant among the Greeks an hexameter poem, the name of which is Eumolpia, and it is assigned to Musaeus, son...

hexad, hexadic, hexagon, hexagram, hexahedron, hexamer, hexamerous, hexameter, hexapod, hexastyle, hexasyllabic, Hexateuch, hexatonic, hexode, tetrahemihexahedron...

prose. Virgil's Aeneid, Book 1, verses 1–4. Quantitative metre (dactylic hexameter). Translation: "I sing of arms and the man, who, driven by fate, came...

attributed to the classical Latin poet Ovid. It consists of three books of hexameters, and was quoted by Roger Bacon. In its slight plot, the aging Ovid is...

Chiron". Apparently it was among works from Acharnae written in heroic hexameters and attached to the famous name of Hesiod, for Pausanias adds "Those who...

well-known courtesan. Athenaeus (p. 698), who preserves some parodic hexameters of his, relates other anecdotes concerning him (pp. 5, 108, 407). In Aristotle's...

Andromeda (1879) has invited many interpretations. Charles Kingsley's hexameter poem retelling the myth, Andromeda (1858), was set to music by Cyril Rootham...

professor Petrus Francius recited a Latin farewell poem of nearly a thousand hexameters. His body was buried in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. The funeral monument...

of his lifelong effort to develop a natural-sounding Russian dactylic hexameter. His many translations of Schiller—including both Classical and Romantic...

lesson: Virgil's Aeneid, Book II:I ...hearing Klein roll off the Virgilian hexameters in a beautiful orotund voice that rose above the traffic, I think it was...

regular feature of Sibylline prophecies (which were written in Greek hexameters. The type of acrostic is that known as a “gamma acrostic” (from the shape...

medical poems and a scathing anti-clerical satire, all in Latin dactylic hexameters. Gilles de Corbeil was born in Corbeil-Essonnes. He studied at the Schola...

as "dark, powerful and vertical in its sense of structure." Ovid 2015 Hexameter Red Wine is a blend of 65% Cabernet Franc, 21% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10%...

world". In the 1830s, the novella was translated into Russian dactylic hexameter verse by the Romantic poet Vasily Zhukovsky. This verse translation became...

in 1497.[citation needed] In 1526, Sannazaro authored a poem in Latin hexameter titled De partus Virginis (Childbirth of the Virgin) that helped give...

century CE from Marseille. He is known for a Latin poem on Genesis in hexameters and a letter to the abbot Salomon against the moral degradation of his...

the only piece known under the name of Merobaudes was a short poem (30 hexameters) De Christo, attributed to him by one manuscript, to Claudian by another;...

Miltonic blank verse, followed by the translation of Milton into Virgilian hexameters, namely to place Milton as the English Virgil. John Constable (Jesuit)...

seventeen shorter fragments. All his surviving poetry is composed in dactylic hexameter and in a Doric dialect, which is typical of ancient bucolic poetry. The...

monarch to strike coins in his image. (For his epitaph, see Latin rhythmic hexameter.) He was buried in the Basilica of Santissimo Salvatore in Pavia. Majocchi...

the death of Scipio. Most of the satires of Lucilius were written in hexameters, but, so far as an opinion can be formed from a number of unconnected...

ˈmater]; "Loving Mother of our Redeemer") is a Marian hymn, written in Latin hexameter, and one of four seasonal liturgical Marian antiphons sung at the end...

at Delphi. The Oracle is said to have made the following prophecy in hexameter verse: For you, inhabitants of wide-wayed Sparta, Either your great and...

the genre, aligning it with the indigenous Roman tradition of "satura", hexameter satire, as practised by (among others) his contemporary Juvenal. Greek...

Seriously: Erotic Magic and Conditional Curses in the Earliest Inscribed Hexameters". Classical Antiquity. 15 (1): 77–112. doi:10.2307/25011032. JSTOR 25011032...

ISBN 8023724525 - ASTRONAUTILIA at the Internet Archive Postmodern "space opera" inspired by quantum physics and the Odyssey, written in Homeric Greek hexameter....

Sibylline Oracles are a collection of oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters, ascribed to the Sibyls, prophetesses who uttered divine revelations in...

Count Robert's tomb bore the following inscription, in Medieval Latin hexameters with internal rhyme: Stirpe satus rēgum, pius et custōdia lēgum, Brannę...

imposed hexameter form, a narrower genre than what would be later intended as satire. Quintilian famously said that satura, that is a satire in hexameter verses...

(predominantly female) morality to bolster his argument. At c. 695 lines of Latin hexameter, this satire is nearly twice the length of the next largest of the author's...

form of restricted poetry in the antiquity. It was noticed that in one hexameter verse, Homer used a sequence of words that consisted of 1, 2, 3, 4, and...

preserved in quotations. The surviving work, De medicina praecepta, in 1115 hexameters, contains a number of popular remedies, borrowed from Pliny the Elder...

with two-liners. It is a collection of moral advice, each consisting of hexameters, in four books. Cato is not particularly Christian in character, but it...

and notes by D. Colomo and J. Chapa. 2011 v. 77. Septuagint (5101) – Hexameters (5102-5106) – Documentary texts (5107-5126) – Indexes. Edited with translations...

He was the first to introduce the hexameter into the Swedish language with his epic Hercules in 1658. The hexameter is used in the Latin language and...

"Oswald's versus retrogradi: A Forerunner of Post-Conquest Trends in Hexameter Composition", in Rebecca Stephenson and Emily V. Thornbury (eds.), Latinity...

the epic Aristeion Carinthiae Claudiforum, consisting of 1,000 Latin hexameters. This work describes the newly built city of Klagenfurt in 18 sections...

Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)...

a rhyming couplet. The final line of each stanza is written in iambic hexameter. For example, see the first stanza: This is the month, and this the happy...

Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic...

a standing man with a pseudo-daedalic form, underneath which lies the hexameter inscription reading "Mantiklos offered me as a tithe to Apollo of the...

Ennius was the first Roman poet to write an epic in an adapted Latin hexameter. However, only fragments of Ennius' epic, the Annales, have survived,...

typically in iambic pentameter.) The second form he stated was dactylic hexameter (the form employed by Homer and Virgil). Grand manner, a comparable concept...

Will Conq to Carolus qui longo tempore in rough Latin and Norman French hexameters. There is also a mnemonic in Latin elegiac which can be translated as...

the court chaplain and poet Jesuit Jakob Balde composed a Latin poem in hexameters called the "Song of Eleonore's Nativity" (Latin: Eleonorae Geniale carmen)...

To sustain these massive oral narratives, performers utilized dactylic hexameter a structural framework for memory and live composition. This meter allowed...

Greeks. There are about 250 in total, and these are written as a series of hexameter verses, in the form of a teaching manual; each maxim directly commanding...

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earliest meter in extant Greek poetry was the epic hexameter of Homer. Homer did not create the epic hexameter, however, and there is evidence that other meters...

Country Duchy of Milan Language Latin Subject Life of Jesus Genre Epic poetry Published in English 1535; 491 years ago (1535) Metre Dactylic hexameter...

argues that the riddle is structured as two poetic lines of rhythmic hexameter. A literal translation reads: Se pareba boves alba pratalia araba et albo...

Magdalene College, Cambridge to study classics, winning prizes for Latin hexameters and Latin epigrams. After graduating in 1936, the next year he went on...

Matilda, Rome, Vatican, Bib. Apostolica, MS. Lat. 4922), written in leonine hexameters. The Life is divided into two books, the first of which entitled, De Principibus...

peculiarities, the style is metrically correct, and he could write neat and witty hexameters. The astrological systems of houses, linking human affairs with the circuit...

children, a son Castalius and a daughter Phemonoe, the first person to write hexameters. His grandson through Castalius was Laphrius, and his great-grandson through...

accordance with the amount of material to be fitted into the remainder of the hexameter verse. The oral nature of the poem was evident in the dependence on these...

face; also ripe cucumbers and apples and pears. Three lines of Praxilla's hexameter hymn to Adonis are quoted by Zenobius. In them, Adonis is asked in the...

Gallus. The discussion is ongoing. This is a pastoral epyllion in 414 hexameters which evokes the world of Theocritus and employs epic conventions for...

of Alexander the Great, the Alexandreis, sive Gesta Alexandri Magni, a hexameter epic, full of anachronisms; he depicts the Crucifixion of Jesus as having...

inscriptions: under the base, the name "PUBLIANUS", and round the rim a regular hexameter line:"SANCTUM ALTARE TUUM DOMINE SUBNIXUS HONORO" engraved alongside two...

homericus adulescens by translating books II-V of the Iliad into Latin hexameters. Lorenzo de' Medici, the autocrat of Florence and the chief patron of...

Above the doorway, the interior preserves an original dedication in Latin hexameters. The interior has basilical form, with a central nave divided from the...

Villanova Cathellano noviter impressus, is a medieval didactic poem in hexameter verse. It is allegedly a work of the Schola Medica Salernitana (from which...

the same artificial literary dialect of Greek, are composed in dactylic hexameter, and make use of short, repeated phrases known as formulae. It is unclear...

Brown, W. Hannaford Lucretius on the Nature of Things Imitative dactylic hexameters. 1951 Latham, Ronald E. On the Nature of the Universe (Penguin Classics...

tradition, wrote De rerum natura, a long didactic poem in Latin dactylic hexameter verse, which is still extant, that explained Epicurus's natural philosophy...

by the ancient Greek doctor Nicander of Colophon. He made his Latin hexameter version available with Latin and Catalan nomenclature and taxonomy of...

inscription on the tomb reads as follows; it is written in rhythmic hexameters, a kind of hexameter in which word accent is taken into account rather than syllable...

"Astrologia" (Ἀστρολογία, also "Astronomy") is a fragmentary Ancient Greek hexameter poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity. As the title of the...

syllable whenever possible: ('HL)σ, and not *(H'L)σ. In Ancient Greek hexameter poetry and Latin literature, lines followed certain metrical patterns...

Otto I and Otto II, and consists of two historical writings in Latin hexameters. Gesta Oddonis tells the story of the Ottonian dynasty, and its rise to...

Aventures de Télémaque (1766; Tilemakhida), which he rendered in Russian hexameters. His works marked the transition from syllabic versification to metric...

Latin English Vesper adest, iuvenes, consurgite: Vesper Olympo dactylic hexameter (lyric type) 66 Miscellaneous Girls and boys share views on marriage Wedding...

and 1115, Donizo wrote the chronicle De principibus Canusinis in Latin hexameters, in which he tells the story of the House of Canossa, especially Matilda...

20 – The Adriatic Sea; Italy with Rome, honoured by a popular Latin hexameter; Roma caput mundi tenet orbis frena rotundi ("Rome, the head of the world...

calling it Livius Refictus, considers it a reworking of Livius into hexameters under the influence of Ennius (fl. c. 200 BC). All the fragments are quotes...

language as "the essence of English"; Landor declared that "his Latin hexameters would not have discredited Lucretius". Smith's son published a number...

especially interesting because of its form. It was written in rhymed hexameter. All the lines are made up of fifteen (7+8) syllables according to the...

edition in 1974. A literary translation of the Davidiad into Croatian hexameters was made by Branimir Glavačić and published alongside the Latin original...

The Punica is a Latin epic poem in seventeen books in dactylic hexameter written by Silius Italicus (c. 28 – c. 103 AD), comprising some twelve thousand...

into Romanticism. The classicist Augustans took as their model the epic hexameters of Virgil's Aeneid and the blank verse of John Milton's three epics. The...

known work is a Greek novel in dodecasyllables (three sections are in hexameters: III 263–288 and 197–320, songs, and VI 205–235, a lament), titled Drosillas...

also more elaborated homiletic poems like stichera composed in psalmodic hexameters (probably from stichos, "verse"), or in a more complex meter like the...

translation of part of William Morris's Sigurd the Volsung into Homeric hexameters. His first scholarly work was published by the Journal of Roman Studies...

followers, are sometimes varied by the use of the occasional alexandrine, or hexameter line, and triplet. Often these two variations are used together to heighten...

later years. Chronica Tripertita is a 1,062 line Latin poem in leonine hexameter. It was published in the manuscripts of Wickert's B-text. Fisher summarizes...

six-foot Greek hexameter, which aids the aoidos or bard in extemporaneous composition. (The Iliad and the Odyssey both use dactylic hexameter verse form,...

Nemesianus: Nemesianus wrote a poem on hunting (Cynegetica); a fragment, 325 hexameter lines, has been preserved. It is neatly expressed in good Latin, and was...

which he achieved by the age of 12. At the age of 13 he composed 300 hexameters of Latin verse in a single morning for a special event at school. In April...

ends with a spondee (i.e. --) or " -uu -u " if a trochee is intended. Hexameter lines often end in an adonic. Halporn, J.W. (2012). "Adonic". In Greene...

Messallae ("Praises of Messalla"), is a 212-line Latin poem in dactylic hexameters included in the 3rd book of the Roman poet Tibullus's collected works...

romanorum (1796), in which he first notes the avoidance of word break in hexameter now called Hermann's Bridge. His writings on Greek grammar are also valuable...

dedication to his patron, the Duke of Cleves. Legend 2 A eulogy, in Latin hexameters, expressing his good fortune at living in Cleves after having fled from...

is, in its most basic definition, a narrative poem written in dactylic hexameters that is comparatively short. There is disagreement about whether the term...

Astronomicon, is a Latin didactic poem about celestial phenomena, written in hexameters and divided into five books. The Astronomica was written c. AD 30–40 by...

6th Century BC Greece Sappho Ancient Greek poet. She wrote poetry in hexameter verse and was particularly skilled in writing riddles or enigmas. Aristotle...

discovered there, were inscriptions, including an interesting hymn to Isis in hexameter verse. The town and its territory were celebrated for its wine in antiquity...

and poet Girolamo Fracastoro as the title of his Latin poem in dactylic hexameter, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus (Syphilis or The French Disease), describing...

west and south sides, and bears an elegant inscription in twelve Greek hexameters dedicated to the Emperor Justinian, his wife, Theodora, and Saint Sergius...

DART, Joseph Henry (1 January 1865). "The Iliad of Homer, in English Hexameter Verse. By J. H. Dart. [Books I.-XXIV.]". Longman, Green and Company –...

Prince's wife, Lady Giovanna, he composed a short poem for her in Latin in hexameter form regarding chess. Only fragments of this poem, the title being "The...

Dante's Divine Comedy. It consists of The Prelude written in quantitative hexameters, and sonnets. The number of poems increased in subsequent editions and...

about them are possible (consider e.g. infectious diseases, dactyls in hexameters, deaths from horse kicks, births of great men)". In fact Ramsey went further...

dinners, curious parody, Swimming, and lying naked in the sun, Latin hexameters, and heraldry, Athenian subtleties of δηs and ποιs, Beethoven, Botticelli...

Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic...

accepted. Later Ovid produced his Metamorphoses, written in dactylic hexameter verse, the meter of epic, attempting a complete mythology from the creation...

four thousand lines which the books contain, more than five-sixths are hexameters. Four of the pieces are written in the hendecasyllabic metre, and there...

in Smithers and Burton's edition of the Priapeia) is a 50-line poem in hexameters in which Priapus recounts how the garden he was guarding, a former graveyard...

Versibus Expressa"), this edition was dedicated in a long letter of Latin Hexameters to the grand Duke Pietro Leopold of Tuscany, to whose court Zamagna seems...

"selections") are a group of ten poems roughly modeled on the bucolic hexameters ("pastoral poetry") of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus. The fourth of...

Aratus' didactic poem Phaenomena. He also took a popular Greek poem in hexameters, Periegesis, briefly delimiting the habitable world from the perspective...

was first printed in Antwerp in 1530. The poem consists of 248 dactylic hexameters, every single word of them beginning with the letter p. As such, the poem...

Iliad is written in iambic heptameter. (The Greek original is in dactylic hexameter.) Chapman often extends and elaborates on Homer's original contents to...

Unger:Untersuchungen zur altattischen Komödie I. Der Gebrauch des daktylischen Hexameters Noske on WorldCat Heinrich Lindlar (ed.): 130 years Rheinische Musikschule...

all the other poems in the Tibullan collection, is written in dactylic hexameters. It is a panegyric of Messalla (consul 31 BC), 212 lines long. There is...

1900–1905 Spitteler wrote the powerful allegoric-epic poem, in iambic hexameters, Olympischer Frühling (Olympic Spring). This work, mixing fantastic, naturalistic...

Phanostratê (Φανοστράτη) above the seated woman on the right. The dactylic hexameter inscription below the bas-relief reads as follows: Μαῖα καὶ ἰατρὸς Φανοστράτη...

Lamentations of Amintas for the death of Phyllis (1587), a version in English hexameters of his friend, Thomas Watson's, Latin Amyntas The Lawiers Logike, exemplifying...

"SDANE" is thought to be an "M". Reconstructed the text appears to be three hexameters: FVDIT ME CONDIDIT TRINITATI VERAE IVS SV GWENON HOC VAS ABBATI NONENSE...

have supposed, that he was the author of an allocutio sponsalis, in five hexameters, preserved among the fragmenta epithalamiorum veterum, and that the little...

('Expedition to Jerusalem'), is an account of the First Crusade in 4,845 hexameters. It was written between 1145 and 1165. The quality of the poetry and the...

The single known work by Parmenides is a philosophical poem in dactylic hexameter verse whose original title is unknown but which is often referred to as...

woman. Before this testimonium appeared, another papyrus containing 21 hexameters related to the Actaeon myth was published by Edgar Lobel, who tentatively...

Alcestis Barcinonensis is a mythological poem of at least 124 Latin hexameters on the story of Alcestis dying for the sake of her husband Admetus, following...

Sachsenkrieg; English: Song of the Saxon War) is a Latin epic in 757 hexameters divided between three books that recounts the first phase of the Saxon...

Oxyrhynchus Online. Archived from the original 26 March 2012. Poem in hexameters, (ca. 50–150). Harvard Digital Collections. Grenfell, B. P.; Hunt, A....

words, edited by Balderic. The verse account is divided into six books of hexameters. They are prefaced by two dedicatory letters, a prologue and a poem on...

His surviving bucolic material (composed in the traditional dactylic hexameters and Doric dialect) is short on pastoral themes and is largely erotic and...

other drafts. He also added or modified words to strengthen the dactylic hexameter. The publication started with a dedication (23-line German poem) to Wilhelm...

all their memories. In 29 BCE, Virgil wrote about Lethe in his didactic hexameter poem, the Georgics. Lethe is also referenced in Virgil's epic Latin poem...

credited with writing Pseudo-Phocylides, a complete didactic poem (230 hexameters). However, that text is now considered to be the work of an Alexandrian...

This book contains one of the most complete lists of types of dactylic hexameters in antiquity, including the teres versus, which may be the so-called golden...

(using the Ionian form of the Greek alphabet), with the metric feet of the hexameter indicated: ὃς νῦν | ὀρχη|στῶν πάν|των ἀτα|λώτατα | παίζει τοῦ τόδε .....

the massacre of the Theban Legion (ff. 9–33v) then ended by a poem in hexameters dedicated to the saint (ff. 35–37 v). The central account was written...

German and Greek. He had a considerable reputation as a writer of English hexameters and as a judge of Homeric translation: his translation of a brief passage...

(for "measure"): monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, and octameter (lines having more than eight feet are possible...

a Lament for Adonis. His poem records the ritual laments of Adonia in hexameter, unlike Sappho, who wrote in lyric meter. Throughout his lament, he makes...

stanza's main metre is iambic pentameter with a final line in iambic hexameter (having six feet or stresses, known as an Alexandrine), and the rhyme...

fifth centuries, often using the meter of pagan poetry. Septuagint's hexameter paraphrase of the Psalms and Nonnus of Panopolis's of the gospel of John...

("Omnipotent Jupiter, please favour my bold attempt"). The last part of the hexameter became the United States motto annuit coeptis. The name Iulus was popularised...

although the Latin language would normally avoid glottal stops, the hexameter requires the reader to produce a glottal stop – to be regarded by all...

the Illustrious Pisans") is a Medieval Latin epic chronicle in 3,500 hexameters, written between 1117 and 1125, detailing the Pisan-led joint military...

is sometimes possible to make a sotadean line by reversing a dactylic hexameter. A 1st-century Latin palindrome was found as a graffito at Pompeii. This...

the works of Virgil. The poet used Virgilian hexameters for the spoken parts of the play, and half-hexameters for the choral parts. Text edited by R. Lamacchia...

Polyhistor was taken for the author's name. It was popular in the Middle Ages, hexameter abridgments being current under the names of Theodericus and Petrus Diaconus...

Mammes; and a Liber de visionibus Wettini. This last poem, written in hexameters like the two preceding ones, was composed at the command of "Father"[clarification...

Story of the Mad Ox "An Ox, long fed with musty hay," 1798 1798, July 30 Hexameters. ('William my teacher,' &c.) "William, my teacher, my friend! dear William...

Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic...

δὲ καταστήσασι Κύπρις χάριν ἀνταποδοίη. It forms a distich in dactylic hexameter: The inscription can be roughly translated as: "I am Terpon, servant of...

[the battle of] Teleboae."). A second tripod bears the inscription in hexameter verse: Σκαῖος πυγμαχέων με ἑκηβόλῳ Ἀπόλλωνι νικήσας ἀνέθηκε τεῒν περικαλλὲς...

Code of the People's Republic of China. Sec. 923 (1) BGB is a perfect hexameter: Steht auf der Grenze ein Baum, so gebühren die Früchte und, wenn der...

 He was best attested as a poet, with a variety of forms to his credit: hexameters, elegies, and dramas. Among the plays tentatively assigned to him are...

Soleil, burlesque, and fetish. Most of the comic is written in dactylic hexameter like the original, but two issues are written entirely in limerick. ODY-C...

III, xvi), the elder Apollinaris translated the Pentateuch into Greek hexameters, converted the first two books of Kings into an epic poem of twenty-four...

Sibylline Books (Fata Sibyllina or Libri Fatales), composed in Greek hexameters, are an example of written fata. These were not Roman in origin but were...

SsSsSsSSsSs and one of SssSs. The SsSsSsSSsSs scheme is just a trochaic hexameter (SsSsSsSsSsSs) with the eighth syllable omitted. For comparison to Horace's...

(Κοσμοποιΐα), that is, on the creation of the universe, consisting of 3780 hexameter verses. Aside from one quotation, the poem is lost to us. The Byzantine...

precision. The poem is divided into 17 books and is composed in dactylic hexameter. It has been thought that the poem was initially planned in hexads and...

Одис­сее­ва). The translation is noted for its archaic diction and its use of hexameters. The work was ridiculed by Catherine the Great but defended by Alexander...

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of books to Abaris, including a volume of Scythian Oracles in dactylic hexameter, a prose theogony, a poem on the marriage of the river Hebrus, a work...

Phrygian" inscription mentioned above, which consists of six dactylic hexameter lines. Also, as Lubotsky has proposed, the traditional Phrygian damnation...

countenance long speeches that even extended up ‘to a length of 10,000 hexameters.’ Theopompus (c. 380 – c. 315 BC) congratulated himself for writing display...

was also a historian, author of a biography of Mem de Sá. Composed of hexameters, De Gestis Mendi de Saa is the first epic about the Americas. It presents...

translated into English,' 1581. Nuce was also author of fourteen Latin hexameters, and 172 lines of English verse prefixed to John Studley's translation...

National Park Service. Courtship of Miles Standish is written in dactylic hexameter, the same meter used in classical epic poetry such as Homer's Iliad and...

the second half is deemed to begin at that point. In the Latin dactylic hexameter, the strong part of a foot is considered to be the first syllable — always...

stylistic devices used. Thus, its 1456 verses are written in dactylic hexameter (the traditional meter of Latin epic poetry) and the poem includes copious...

Traveller) was the author of a description of the habitable world in Greek hexameter verse written in a terse and elegant style, intended for the klismos traveller...

Harvey and Richard Stanyhurst. Perhaps Huanebango, who parodies Harvey's hexameters, and actually quotes him on one occasion, may be regarded as representing...

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of Zeus Funeral games for Patroclus Trojan Battle Order Study Dactylic hexameter Homeric scholarship Homeric Question Chorizontes Jørgensen's law Historicity...

an unspecified language. The third work attributed to Geoffrey is the hexameter poem Vita Merlini (Life of Merlin), based more closely on traditional...

on Proclus' life. This was written in a combination of prose and epic hexameters, of which only the former survives. The publication of the biography is...

its culture. The first known poem about cricket was written in Latin hexameters, by the Bristol schoolmaster William Goldwyn in 1704. Notable authors...

varies from iambic pentameter in its final line, which is a line of iambic hexameter, or in other words an English alexandrine. In the seventeenth century...

African, was the author of a description of the then-known world in Greek hexameter verse. He is believed to have been from Alexandria and to have lived around...

He wrote in the Doric dialect but the metre he chose was the dactylic hexameter associated with the most prestigious form of Greek poetry, epic. This...

plants), also known by the author's pseudonym, Macer Floridus, is a Latin hexameter poem on the properties of herbs. It was written, probably by Odo of Meung-sur-Loire...

Corvey. Of the five books of the 2,691-line Annales, the first four are in hexameters while the last is in elegiac distichs. The first critical edition of the...

Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter Saturnian (poetry)...

alongside ours, equipped with a sub woofer – with the pentameters and hexameters of hip-hop blasting through every window. The music cross-faded as I watched...

Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter Meters by metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic...

Somerville College Library Ibant Obscuri: An Experiment in the Classical Hexameter (1916), with reprint of summary of Stone's Prosody, accompanied by 'later...

have not been preserved. They are: a vision he had received recounted in hexameters, which he describes in prose in Otium; Progress of the Inner Man, a work...

base is clearly Ottonian and includes an inscription written in dactylic hexameter, which refers to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers of Mesopotamia. According...

Baldrey, is mentioned by Bromley. He was the subject of the following Greek hexameter, which was familiar to the undergraduates of his time: Μαψ αὐτὸν καλέουσι...

Seasons, was titled by Rheza. It consisted of four idylls, totaling 2,997 hexameters. The work was a long-term project, often revised and rewritten, without...

Greek poet. She is best known for her long poem The Distaff, a 300-line hexameter lament for her childhood friend Baucis, who had died shortly after her...

palm. Xhayet and Halleux, 94–98 give the texts. These are a number of hexameters of Leonine verse, the upper ones explaining the relief scenes while the...

among scholars as to the names of the archilochian ones. (a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic tetrameter) Book 1: 7, 28 – ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ ᴗ – / ᴗ ᴗ –...

over 250 narratives across fifteen books; it is composed in dactylic hexameter, the meter of both the ancient Iliad and Odyssey, and the more contemporary...

(fraternity) membership. Courses do not interest him, except the "melancholy hexameters" and the "rigid clarity in solid geometry" . At the end of the sophomore...

Homeric Hymns, traditionally attributed to Homer and written in dactylic hexameter. Homeric is a literary dialect with elements of Ionic, Aeolic and Arcadocypriot...

length. However, while "poetic metre" is often spelled as -re, pentameter, hexameter, etc. are always -er. Many other words have -er in British English. These...

perhaps even a schismatic bishop of Bologna. In fact, we know of a story in hexameter verse, entitled De utroque apostolico (“Of the Two Popes”), that Gualfredo...

"Goldwyn", wrote a poem of 95 competent and sometimes graceful lines of Latin hexameters on a rural cricket match. It was called In Certamen Pilae (On a Ball Game)...

10/30/2008 "Sacred Harp Convention", Poetry Porch "A Meditation on Dactylic Hexameter", The Barefoot Muse [1]The O in the Air, Franciscan University Press (July...

was appointed in 1530, and he brought it up to 1513. An early poem in hexameters, De rerum et artium inventoribus, was an influence on Polydore Vergil...

Margites to Pigres, a Greek poet of Halicarnassus. It is written in mixed hexameter and iambic lines, an oddity characteristic also of the Batrachomyomachia...

and all of Virgil's surviving poetry, Eclogue 3 is composed in dactylic hexameters. Eclogues 2 and 3 are thought to be the earliest of Virgil's Eclogues...

identified as Adelaide of Italy. The author of version E, which was written in hexameters, is identified as Odo von Magdeburg. The following were also produced...

himself once admitted, "I'm damned if I could tell the difference between a hexameter and a pentameter to save my scalp." The Westminster Review referred to...

time of the Palaeologi. The former displays his humanism in his use of hexameter, the latter in his knowledge of the Latin; both of which are otherwise...

and writer. He was a Hellenistic Jewish author of an epic poem in Greek hexameters on the history of Jerusalem. He lived at an earlier date than Philo the...

coax ranis are the first words of a two-line poem in internally rhymed hexameters by Serlo of Wilton. The complete text is: Linquo coax ranis, cras corvis...

takeover of Venice by Napoleon in 1797. The reverse bears a motto in Latin hexameter: Sit tibi, Christe, datus // quem tū regis, iste ducātus ("Christ, let...

laudatory of its namesake. The poem is in four books, with a total of 1,090 hexameters. It was composed still during Berengar's lifetime, in the period 915–924...

to Ithaca disguised as a beggar. These works are written in dactylic hexameter verse, in the Homeric dialect of ancient Greek, a mixture of the Ionic...

and, further, that these letter names concealed lines of Ancient Greek hexameter describing the goddess. Graves' "tree calendar" has no relation to any...

collects to be used at each hour. One set is in verse (cf. the Mass in hexameters in the Reichenau Gallican fragment). It also gives several sets of collects...

epics of its time, spanning 14 books and roughly 9,000 verses in dactylic hexameter. The poem provided a comprehensive account of the life and mythical adventures...

against Flavian"), is an anonymous 4th- or 5th-century Latin poem in 122 hexameters condemning a brief restoration of paganism at Rome. The Carmen (CPL 1431)...

the public baths, since the word balneae could not be introduced in a hexameter verse. Pliny also, in the same sentence, makes use of the neuter plural...

rest is known from Saxo's version in Latin. The latter consists of 298 hexameters, and tells the tale of Rolf Krake's downfall at Lejre on the isle of Sjælland...

Klopstock publishes the first three cantos of his epic poem Der Messias in hexameters (anonymously), in Bremer Beiträge (Leipzig). Adam Smith begins to deliver...

"And Then There Was Silence" Gates of Fire Study Aposiopesis Dactylic hexameter Hysteron proteron Sortes Vergilianae Related Brutus of Troy Eneados Golden...

of Zeus Funeral games for Patroclus Trojan Battle Order Study Dactylic hexameter Homeric scholarship Homeric Question Chorizontes Jørgensen's law Historicity...

Latin distichs (which reached over fifty editions) and of the Iliad into hexameters. His most original poem was the Heroides in imitation of Ovid, consisting...

he died. Having made his name first known as a writer by an idyll in hexameters, Die Treibjagd (1820), and several short stories, his literary reputation...

Classical meter as defined by the Alexandrian grammarians was the dactylic hexameter, the meter of Homeric poetry. This form uses verses of six feet. The first...

and writer living around 500 AD, wrote a lengthy (over 400 lines long) hexameter poem inspired by the statues adorning the Baths of Zeuxippus. The poem...

fresh). The poem breaks off at this point. The Cynegetica is written in hexameter verse. Duff and Duff note the following metrical features (some of which...

(d. 1111). This inscription is written on four tablets with 20 verses (hexameters and elegiac couplets), in which an unknown poet credits Vekenega's work...

Aristonice may have been reshaped to conform to the customs of dactylic hexameter, a style characteristic of Greek epic literature. However, the historian...

prosody, his translation of the fourth book of the Aeneid into classical hexameter verses being greeted by Voltaire as "the only prose translation in which...

dactylic hexameter was introduced in imitation of the Greeks, thereafter becoming the Latin heroic meter. The Greek/Roman dactylic hexameter exerted a...

"have regard for the end" or "consider the end"; part of the dactylic hexameter quidquid agis prudenter agas et respice finem (whatever you do, do it...

res technique of Homer. He later rewrote the second part in dactylic hexameter under the title Die Rache der Schwester (1767). Bodmer's placement of...

recognized for his work as a Latin poet. His ambitious didactic poem in hexameters, entitled Urania, which presents the astronomical knowledge of the period...

pentameter Dactylic hexameter Golden line Iambic meter: any meter based on the iamb as its primary rhythmic unit. Alexandrine (iambic hexameter): a 12-syllable...

and "R. O." To the second volume he contributed specimens of English hexameters, which he had first attempted in the Monthly Magazine, 1796. As editor...

bathometer, chronometer, diameter, diametric, dysmetria, graphometer, hexameter, hygrometer, hygrometry, isodiametric, isometric, isoperimetric, meter...

make wickedness fearless. Plutarch no doubt here makes reference to a hexameter by an unknown poet, cited by sceptic philosopher Sextus Empiricus (2nd...

poet in the Republic of Florence, best remembered for his Latin dactylic hexameter. Born in Florence to a noble family of magistrates, he was trained under...

1945 book A Grammar of Motives. Burke based his pentad on the scholastic hexameter which defines "questions to be answered in the treatment of a topic: Who...

urbium nobilium. 14 pieces, dealing with 17 towns (Rome to Bordeaux), in hexameters, and composed after the downfall of Maximus in 388. Ludus VII Sapientium...

as husband of Phanothea, a woman who was believed to have invented the hexameter. Apollodorus, 3.14.7; Nonnus, 47.34 Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.4.4; Fabulae...

and how your beauty may be preserved". Rather than using the dactylic hexameters of Hesiod and Vergil, Ovid casts his advice in elegiac couplets, the traditional...

Helen". All works mentioned in the Suda are lost, but his poem in 392 hexameters on The Abduction of Helen (Ἁρπαγὴ Ἑλένης) is still extant, having been...

episcopi Wirzburgensis, a highly personal work. It is 102 lines of leonine hexameters. The poem expresses lament, repentance and fear of God for past sins and...

one, he covered the entire life of Jesus Christ in verse, using 10,049 hexameters and 16 cantos. All of his late works were published in 1526. With his...

convent of St. Mary in Zadar, is written on four tablets with 20 verses (hexameters and elegiac couplets), in which an unknown poet credits Vekenega's work...

Dorotheus, composed sometime in the 4th-century. Earliest example of dactylic hexameter in Christian poetry and entirely unique to the Bodmer papyri. Hurst, André;...

The Einsiedeln Eclogues are two Latin pastoral poems, written in hexameters. They were discovered in a tenth century manuscript from Einsiedeln Abbey (codex...

Witchcraft in the Getty Museum: from Archetype to Exemplar," in "The Getty Hexameters: Poetry, Magic, and Mystery in Ancient Greek Selinous", C. A. Faraone...

in the scholia to Plato, Minos 315c, since Enarete cannot stand in a hexameter line and the Bibliotheca's primary source at this point is the epic Hesiodic...

Ozolian Locrians by the poet Archytas of Amphissa, who describes it in a hexameter line: "the grape-clad, perfume-breathing, lovely Macȳna." It is also mentioned...

river's length. At Seven Springs above the source is a stone with the Latin hexameter inscription "Hic tuus o Tamesine pater septemgeminus fons", which means...

Vita Merlini, or The Life of Merlin, is a Latin poem in 1,529 hexameter lines written around the year 1150. Though doubts have in the past been raised...