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Definition of Senarius
1. a Greek or Latin verse consisting of six metrical feet [n -NARII]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Senarius
Literary usage of Senarius
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Res Metrica: An Introduction to the Study of Greek & Roman Versification by William Ross Hardie (1920)
"The former designates a handling of the metre that was distinctively Greek, though
practised also by later Roman poets : ' senarius' is the more appropriate ..."
2. Opuscula: Essays, Chiefly Philological and Ethnographical by Robert Gordon Latham (1860)
"ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE CAESURA IN THE GREEK senarius. ... of the Greek tragic
senarius, the rules, as laid down by Person in the Supplement to his Preface ..."
3. Proceedings of the Philological Society by Louis Loewe, Philological Society (Great Britain) (1854)
"On the Doctrine of the Caesura in the Greek senarius. ... In the first place of
a tragic senarius it is a matter of indifference whether the arsis fall on ..."
4. Opuscula: Essays, Chiefly Philological and Ethnographical by Robert Gordon Latham (1860)
"With this view of the arsis, or ictus, we may ask how far, in each particular
foot of the senarius, it coincides with the quantity. ..."
5. The Letters of Cassiodorus: Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae by Cassiodorus, Thomas Hodgkin (1886)
"... if any offender is so poor and squalid that restitution cannot be compelled
from him, he shall be beaten with clubs.' ji. KINO THEODORIC TO senarius, ..."
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