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Dactylic hexameter and Prosody (Latin) do not mention it, and even standard textbooks such as D. S. Raven's Latin Metre stop short of medieval Latin). It...

including -te. This is the reason why a word like mittite cannot end a hexameter. If it did, it would have to be scanned as a cretic (– u –) and not a...

written in hexameters; the contrast between the Metamorphoses and the Fasti comes to mind. Elegy is one of the hardest genres of Greek and Latin poetry to...

trochee replaces the final dactyl) trimeter 3, tetrameter 4, pentameter 5, hexameter 6, heptameter 7, and o ctameter 8 iambic pentameter (5 iambs, 10 syllables)...

pentameters and hexameters"; we'd say it's pentameter -- but we're characterizing the passage, not the line. The variant line is still hexameter, not a long...

composed in dactylic hexameter” - Perhaps this could be explained, as you do for the following mention of formulae. Done (now in the rhythmic form known as....

of wording and word placement within the fundamental rhythmical unit of the dactylic hexameter, can now be further examined from both synchronic and...