- Look up
dactyl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Dactyl may
refer to:
Dactyl (mythology), a
legendary being Dactyl (poetry), a
metrical unit of verse...
- In Gr**** mythology, the
Dactyls or
Daktyloi (/ˈdæktɪlz/; from
Ancient Gr****: Δάκτυλοι Dáktuloi "fingers") were the
archaic mythical race of male beings...
- the line are
dactyls; the
sixth a trochee.
Stephen Fry
quotes Robert Browning's poem "The Lost Leader" as an
example of the use of
dactylic metre to great...
- six feet, each of
which is
either a
dactyl (– u u) or a
spondee (– –). The
first four feet can
either be
dactyls, spondees, or a mix. The
fifth foot can...
- sneeze. The
first published collection of
double dactyls was Jiggery-Pokery: A
Compendium of
Double Dactyls,
edited by
Anthony Hecht and John Hollander. Many...
- ages. Ida's moon
Dactyl was
discovered by
mission member Ann
Harch in
images returned from Galileo. It was
named after the
Dactyls,
creatures which inhabited...
-
named after the
mythical creatures called dactyls, who,
according to Gr**** mythology,
lived on
Mount Ida.
Dactyl's orbit around Ida is not
precisely known...
-
Idaean craters are
named after famous caves.
Dactylian craters are
named after the
mythological Dactyls. USGS: Ida
nomenclature USGS:
Dactyl nomenclature...
- The "Idaean
Dactyls" (Ancient Gr****: Ἰδαῖοι Δάκτυλοι,
Idaioi Daktyloi) is a lost poem that was
attributed to
Hesiod by the tenth-century encyclopedia...
- 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 in most positions...
