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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****...
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Enigmata Eusebii (riddles of Eusebius) are a
collection of
sixty Latin,
hexametrical riddles composed in
early medieval England,
probably in the
eighth century...
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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...
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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...
- pre-eminent
collection of
ancient Latin riddles is a
collection of 100
hexametrical riddles by
Symphosius which were
influential on
later medieval Latin...
- 1791/92) Der Bürgergeneral (stage play, 1793)
Reineke Fuchs ("Reineke Fox",
hexametric epic poem, 1794)
Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten ("Conversations...
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inscription from Dokimeion. It is a
Phrygian epitaph consisting of six
hexametric verses written in
eight lines, and
dated to the end of the 4th century...
