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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 Gr****...
- that
these formulae were
artifacts of oral
tradition easily applied to a
hexametric line. A two-word
stock epithet (e.g., "resourceful Odysseus") reiteration...
- needed] the
fifth and
fourth centuries BC,
there existed a
collection of
hexametric poems known as Orphic,
which were the
accepted authority of
those who...
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brought about by the p****age of time. It also
appears in
various longer hexametric forms, most
commonly Tempora mutantur, nos et
mutamur in illis, meaning...
- ****phone that the
Bacchic One
himself released you. The
Orphic Hymns are 87
hexametric poems of a
shorter length composed in the
Roman Imperial age. The Orphic...
- pre-eminent
collection of
ancient Latin riddles is a
collection of 100
hexametrical riddles by
Symphosius which were
influential on
later medieval Latin...
-
fellow of the
Royal College of
Physicians in 1838, and
later published Hexametrical Experiments, or, A
version of four of Virgil's pastorals... with hints...
- riddles, also
known as the
Aenigmata Anglica, are a
collection of
twelve hexametrical,
early medieval Latin riddles that were
anonymously written in the ninth...
- 94-103
paranatellonta of
certain degrees of the
zodiacal signs (with some
hexametrical traces), ed. F. Boll,
Sphaera (1903), 41–52; W. Hübner, ibid. I 108-127...
- long pre-Homeric epic tradition. This Epic
Ionic was used in all
later hexametric and
elegiac poetry, not only by Ionians, but also by
foreigners such as...
