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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****...
- writes: In the
fifth and
fourth centuries BC,
there existed a
collection of
hexametric poems known as Orphic,
which were the
accepted authority of
those who...
- that
these formulae were
artifacts of oral
tradition easily applied to a
hexametric line. A two-word
stock epithet (e.g., "resourceful Odysseus") reiteration...
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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...
- ****phone that the
Bacchic One
himself released you. The
Orphic Hymns are 87
hexametric poems of a
shorter length composed in the
Roman Imperial age. The Orphic...
- 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...
- 1791/92) Der Bürgergeneral (stage play, 1793)
Reineke Fuchs ("Reineke Fox",
hexametric epic poem, 1794)
Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten ("Conversations...
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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...
- ****ociation in Poland. He was a poet, the
author of
Tragedia ("The Tragedy"), a
hexametric poem
dedicated to
Napoleon Bonaparte, the
French Emperor. The book, illustrated...
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consists of 46 characters, of
which the
first 35 can
easily be read as a
hexametric verse in Gr****. The
fragmentary rest is
believed to have been the beginning...
