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hephthemimer Anc. Pros.|hɛfθɪˈmɪmə(r)|
[ad. late L. hephthemimerēs (-is) (Diomedes, Servius), a. Gr. ἑϕθηµιµερής ‘containing seven halves’, f. ἑπτ(α- seven + ἡµι- half + µέρος part, -µερης -partite. So mod.F. hephthémimère. Also commonly used in the Latin form; sometimes contracted hephthemim.]
A group or catalectic colon of seven half-feet; the part of a hexameter line preceding the cæsura when this occurs in the middle of the fourth foot, as in ‘Inferretque deos Latio · genus unde Latinum’.
Hence hephtheˈmimeral a., of or pertaining to a hephthemimeris, as in hephthemimeral cæsura: see the example above.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Hephthemimeris. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Hephthemimeris, in the Greek and Latin poetry, a sort of verse consisting of three feet and a syllable; that is, of seven half feet. 1871Public Sch. Lat. Gram. §226. 464–5 Next in power to the penthemimeral is the hephthemimeral or semiseptenarian caesura. Ibid., In this verse, Quid faciat {vb} laetas {vb} segetes {vb} quo sidere terram..the principal pause is at the hephthemimeris. Ibid. §232. 470 Trochaic Hephthemimer. |