-
Middle East and elsewhere. Sir
Walter Scott compared Gaelic keening to the
ululatus of the Romans.
According to
Irish mythology,
keening laments are sung by...
- is
sometimes imitated in
Latin for
special effect, for example, fēmineō
ululātu "with
womanly wailing" (Aen. 9.477). When a
vowel is elided, it does not...
- mori etae
simata est
afflitio exitus quormododo sedet sol/ploratus et
ululatus illorum et
quoda a
noris est iter
exterminium civitas plena populo/requiescant...
- ETC: A
Review of
General Semantics, June, 1966. "Measurement" and "Rain."
Ululatus, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1978. "E." Blue Unicorn, June, 1989.
Collections of Bartlett's...
- and is said to be in Hiatus. An
example of this, in Virgil's fémineó
ululátú the "o" is not elided. A word
ending in
vowel + m is
similarly elided (sometimes...