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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...
- that
these formulae were
artifacts of oral
tradition easily applied to a
hexametric line. A two-word
stock epithet (e.g. "resourceful Odysseus") reiteration...
- THEOCRITUS,
IDYLL 2, A COURTESan's
PANTRY AND a LOST GR****
TRADITION OF
HEXAMETRICAL CURSES". The
classical Quarterly. 70 (2): 650–663. doi:10.1017/s0009838821000070...
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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...
- 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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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...
- pre-eminent
collection of
ancient Latin riddles is a
collection of 100
hexametrical riddles by
Symphosius which were
influential on
later medieval Latin...
- but the text
means something like:
There is no
doubt that the text is
hexametrical,
although there has been
dispute about the scansion. One
likely interpretation...
- riddles, also
known as the
Aenigmata Anglica, are a
collection of
twelve hexametrical,
early medieval Latin riddles that were
anonymously written in the ninth...
