Definition of Hexametric. Meaning of Hexametric. Synonyms of Hexametric

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Definition of Hexametric

Hexametric
Hexametric Hex`a*met"ric, Hexametrical Hex`a*met"ric*al, a. Consisting of six metrical feet.

Meaning of Hexametric from wikipedia

- 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****...
- 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...
- that these formulae were artifacts of oral tradition easily applied to a hexametric line. A two-word stock epithet (e.g. "resourceful Odysseus") reiteration...
- 1791/92) Der Bürgergeneral (stage play, 1793) Reineke Fuchs ("Reineke Fox", hexametric epic poem, 1794) Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten ("Conversations...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- survives only in papyrus fragments or in quotations. The Orphic Hymns are 87 hexametric poems of a shorter length composed in the Roman Imperial age. The Orphic...
- Leopold Schefer, 1858: Homer’s Apotheose, his last publication, itself a hexametric epos. A Companion to Gr**** Studies. CUP Archive. pp. 317–8. Lemprière...
- later authors from antiquity to the present. The work consists of 2,188 hexametric verses divided into four books. The yearly timings by the rising and setting...