单词 | hephthemimer |
释义 | hephthemimern. Classical Prosody. 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’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > hexameter > part preceding caesura trihemimer1704 hephthemimer1706 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hephthemimeris. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Hephthemimeres, in the Greek and Latin Poetry, a Sort of Verse consisting of three Feet, and a Syllable; that is, of seven half Feet. 1871 B. H. Kennedy Public School Lat. Gram. §226. 464–5 In this verse, Quid faciat | laetas | segetes | quo sidere terram..the principal pause is at the hephthemimeris. 1871 B. H. Kennedy Public School Lat. Gram. §232. 470 Trochaic Hephthemimer. Derivatives hephtheˈmimeral adj. of or pertaining to a hephthemimeris, as in hephthemimeral caesura: see the example above. ΚΠ 1871 B. H. Kennedy Public School Lat. Gram. §226. 464–5 Next in power to the penthemimeral is the hephthemimeral or semiseptenarian caesura. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1706 |
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