- 14%
iambic septenarii (ia7): 9%
trochaic octonarii (tr8): 2%
trochaic quaternarii (tr4): less than 0.2% The
different metres have
different functions....
- inches, men, pounds, coins, or years,
according to context: scrobēs
quaternāriī, hoc est quōquōversus
pedum quattuor (Columella) 'four-foot ditches,...
-
represent an
obviously guilty client. In a
series of
eleven rhyming iambic quaternarii he
recounts his misfortunes. His wife and
Peniculus overhear him and...
- (tr7): 22%
iambic octonarii (ia8): 18%
iambic septenarii (ia7): 4%
cretic quaternarii (cr4): 1%
trochaic octonarii (tr8): 0.7% Many
Roman comedies, such as...
-
quattuor litteris .A.D.E.a.
Denique si A
habeat .XII. et D VIIII.
sintque quaternarii in pro p****u.
habebit .A. in .XII.
ternarios .IIII. et D. in .VIIII....
- luggage, and goes
inside with Callicles. Act 5.1 (1115–1119):
anapaestic quaternarii (5 lines)
Lysiteles arrives,
singing of his happiness. Act 5.1 (cont...
- at the
prospect of
marrying Antiphila.
trochaic octonarii: 1%
iambic quaternarii: 0.4%
Since a
senarius is
shorter than a septenarius, in
terms of the...
-
lines at a time. However, in
Rudens (955–962)
there are 13
anapaestic quaternarii,
followed by a
catalectic one. The p****age
begins as follows. It is a...
- will be
after finding a
chest in the sea. The
metre switches to
iambic quaternarii when
Trachalio grabs the rope, then to
anapaestic quarternarii when he...
- the "running slave" scene;
mainly bacchiac, but
mixed with
anapaestic quaternarii and
trochaic octonarii, for Charinus's lament; and
iambic septenarii...
