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Definition of Ictuses
1. ictus [n] - See also: ictus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ictuses
Literary usage of Ictuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Rhythmic and Metric of the Classical Languages: To by Johann Hermann Heinrich Schmidt, John Williams White (1902)
"The rhythmical ictuses have nothing to do with the accents, but fall arbitrarily
... So also syllables with these accents can be without rhythmical ictuses. ..."
2. Bulletin by University of Virginia School of Latin (1909)
"ss / AG - AIA - A || AG AG| AAG Two artificial ictuses in the same tripudium.
... sss / / A - AG IA-OA-GII AAG | AAG Three artificial ictuses in three and ..."
3. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1885)
"In constructing a line of verse, therefore, enough of the ictuses of the line
must be made to coincide with primary accents to enable the reader to locate ..."
4. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1893)
"In this dactylic scheme there are naturally four principal ictuses on the ist,
4th, 6th, and loth syllables, with two possible secondary ..."
5. Classical Weekly (1910)
"He discovers a veiled attack on the famous cycle in the fact that a metrical
analysis of portions of those strophes reveals 38 ictuses in each, ..."
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