Dactyl poetry Dactylichexameter also known as heroic hexameter is a form of meter poetry meter in poetry ... language example of the dactylichexameter, in quantitative meter Down in a deep dark hole ... Greek, it is by nature more spondaic than Greek. These factors caused the Latin hexameter to take on distinct Latin characteristics. The earliest example of the use of hexameter in Latin poetry is that of the Annales of Ennius , which established the dactylichexameter as the standard for later Latin ... other things categorizes dactylichexameter verses in ways that were later interpreted under the golden ... exercise. Petrarch , for example, devoted much time to his Africa Petrarch Africa , a dactylichexameter ... links http www.skidmore.edu academics classics courses metrica Introduction to the dactylichexameter for Latin verse. http www.aoidoi.org articles meter reading dact hex.php Reading dactylichexameter ... s Aeneid . TOC left The meter consists of lines made from six hexa Foot prosody feet . In strict dactylichexameter, each of these feet would be a dactyl poetry dactyl , but classical meter allows for the substitution ... 95 of the time in Homer . The sixth foot is always a spondee, though it may be anceps . Thus the dactylic ... s minims and quarter notes crotchets , respectively. Homer s meter The hexameter was first used by early .... If these two features of the language coincide too frequently, they overemphasize each other and the hexameter ... than later hexameter poetry. They are also characterised by a laxer following of verse principles that the authors ... in a later author like Callimachus . Homer also altered the forms of words to allow them to fit the hexameter ... exceptions in early epic, most of the later rules of hexameter composition have their origins in the methods and practices of Homer. Latin hexameter The hexameter came into Latin as an adaptation ... in the meter and it was at this time that many of the principles of Latin hexameter were firmly ... of Latin hexameter Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris dactyl, dactyl, spondee, spondee ... more details
the most successful hexameter text in Lithuanian as yet. Several attempts were made in the 19th century to naturalise the dactylichexameter to English, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Arthur Hugh ... poets. In the second part of the 20th century hexameter was used in the longest ever poem, Savitri book , written in English by Sri Aurobindo Citation needed date March 2011 . See also Dactylichexameter ... dactylichexameter at Skidmore College . Category Poetic rhythm Link GA ru als Hexameter bg ca Hex metre cs Hexametr da Heksameter de Hexameter et Heksameeter es Hex metro eo Heksametro ...Hexameter is a Line poetry metrical line of verse consisting of six metrical foot feet . It was the standard epic metre in classical Greek and Latin literature, such as in the Iliad and Aeneid . Its use in other genres of composition include Horace s satires, and Ovid s Metamorphoses poem Metamorphoses . According to Greek mythology , hexameter was invented by the god Hermes . Homer s Odyssey also uses the hexameter verse throughout his poem. The hexameter has never enjoyed a similar popularity in English ... in hexameter over the centuries. There are numerous examples of iambic hexameter from the 16th century and a few from the 17th the most prominent of these is Michael Drayton s Poly Olbion 1612 in hexameter ... a vale in fortuning to wed. A hexameter consists of six feet. A foot can be made up of two long ... to use hexameter in English, because English leaves vowels and consonants out from words, while hexameter relies on phonetics and sounds always having fixed positions. The only languages having ... century the iambic hexameter, or alexandrine , was used as a substitution in the heroic couplet ... Cowley Cowley and John Dryden Dryden . In the late 18th century the hexameter was adapted to the Lithuanian ... hu Hexameter nl Hexameter ja no Heksameter nn Heksameter nds Hexameter pt Hex metro ru simple Hexameter sk Hexameter sr Heksametar fi Heksametri sv Hexameter ... more details
Dactylic metre is any Meter poetry meter primarily composed of Dactyl poetry dactyls long short short, or stressed unstressed unstressed . It may refer to Dactylic tetrameter Dactylic pentameter Dactylichexameter dab ... more details
Dactylic pentameter is a form of meter poetry meter in poetry. It is normally found in the second line of the classical Latin or Greek elegiac couplet, following the first line of dactylichexameter . The meter consists of two halves, both shaped around the dactylichexameter line up to the main caesura . That is, it has two dactyl poetry dactyls for which spondee s can be substituted , following by a longum , followed by two dactyls which must remain dactyls , followed by a longum. Thus the line most normally looks as follows note that is a long syllable, u a short syllable and U either one long or two shorts U U u u u u As in all classical verse forms, the phenomenon of brevis in longo is observed, so the last syllable can actually be short or long. Also, the line manifests a diaeresis, a place where word boundary must occur, after the first half line, here marked with a . Pentameter is a slightly strange term for this meter, as it seems to have six parts, but this name comes from the fact that the two halves of the line, broken here by the , each have two and a half feet. Two and a half plus two and a half equals five, hence pentameter penta, five . The two half lines are each called a hemiepes half epic , from the fact that they resemble half a line of epic dactylichexameter. The pentameter is notable for its very structured quality no substitutions are allowed except in the first two feet. External links http www.iona.edu latin meter.html Meter and Scansion with several Latin verse forms. Category Poetic rhythm pl Dystych elegijny ru ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 For the dactylic tetrameter in Greek and Latin poetry, see Alcmanian verse . Dactylic tetrameter is a meter poetry metre in poetry . It refers to a line consisting of four dactyl poetry dactylic foot poetry feet . Tetrameter simply means four poetic feet. Each foot has a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, the opposite of an anapest , sometimes called antidactylus to reflect this fact. Example A dactylic foot is one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones border 1 cellspacing 0 cellpadding 5 DUM da da A dactylic tetrameter would therefore be border 1 cellspacing 0 cellpadding 5 DUM da da DUM da da DUM da da DUM da da systems of scansion Scanning this using an x to represent an unstressed syllable and a to represent a stressed syllable would make a dactylic tetrameter like the following border 1 cellspacing 0 cellpadding 5 x x x x x x x x The following lines from The Beatles Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds demonstrate this, the scansion being border 1 cellspacing 0 cellpadding 5 center center center x center center x center center center center x center center x center center center center x center center x center center center center x center center x center Pic ture your self in a boat on a riv er with border 1 cellspacing 0 cellpadding 5 center center center x center center x center center center center x center center x center center center center x center center x center center center center x center center x center tan ger ine tree ees and marm a lade skii ii es Another example, from Robert Browning Browning border 1 cellspacing 0 cellpadding 5 center center center x center center x center center center center x center center x center center center center x center center x center center center center x center Just for a hand ful of sil ver he left us The traditional song Here s A Health To The Company is also in dactylic tetrameter. See also Dactyl poetry Dactyl Tetrameter DEFAULTSORT Dactylic Tetrameter ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2006 Biceps is a point in a meter poetry metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable a longum or two short syllables brevis brevia . It is found in the dactylic hexameter and the dactylic pentameter . It is not to be confused with resolution meter resolution , which is the replacement of a long with two shorts. Resolution is carefully limited within a line, whereas a biceps can freely be either long or two shorts. DEFAULTSORT Biceps Prosody Category Poetic rhythm hu Biceps Poetry stub ... more details
The following meter poetry meters were used in Ancient Greek literature Greek poetry and borrowed into Latin literature Latin poetry in the classical antiquity classical period Major forms Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet , consisting of a line of dactylic hexameter and one of dactylic pentameter Iambic trimeter Aeolic verse Aeolics Glyconic and pherecratean Asclepiad poetry Asclepiad Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Hendecasyllabic verse Adonean Other meters Choliamb ic, also known as limping iambs or scazon Ionic meter Ionic Anacreonteus Anapestic Greek meter Anapestic Trochaic Greek meter Trochaic Dactylo epitrite Dochmiac Galliambic DEFAULTSORT Classical meters Category Arts related lists Category Poetic rhythm Category Stanzaic form ... more details
Alcmanian verse refers to the dactylic tetrameter in Ancient Greek Greek and Latin poetry . Dactylic tetrameter in Alcman Ancient metricians called the dactylic tetrameter the Alcmanic because of its use by the Archaic Greek poet Alcman , as in fragment 27 PMG class wikitable polytonic br , br . br br This length is scanned like the first four feet of the dactylichexameter giving rise to the name dactylic tetrameter a priore . Thus, a spondee substitutes for a dactyl poetry dactyl in the third line, but the lines end with dactyls not spondees . The Alcmanian strophe Horace composed some poems in the Alcmanian strophe or Alcmanian system , a couplet consisting of a dactylichexameter followed by a dactylic tetrameter a posteriore so called because it ends with a spondee, thus resembling the last four feet of the hexameter . Examples are Odes Horace Odes I.7 and I.28, and Epode 12 Quid tibi vis, mulier nigris dignissima barris? munera quid mihi quidve tabellas . Later Latin poets use the dactylic tetrameter a priore as the second verse of the Alcmanian strophe. For example, Boethius Consolation of Philosophy I.m.3 cquote Tunc me discussa liquerunt nocte tenebrae br Luminibusque prior rediit vigor. br Ut, cum praecipiti glomerantur nubila coro br Nimbosisque polus stetit imbribus, br Sol latet ac nondum caelo venientibus astris, br Desuper in terram nox funditur br Hanc si Threicio Boreas emissus ab antro br Verberet et clausum reseret diem, br Emicat et subito vibratus lumine Phoebus br Mirantes oculos radiis ferit. Ausonius uses couplets of a dactylic tetrameter a priore followed by a hemiepes in http www.forumromanum.org literature parentalia.html ... Alcmanian is sometimes applied to modern English dactylic tetrameters e.g. Robert Southey s Soldier ... more details
syllable is connected to the next syllable Dactylichexameter This section is linked from Latin spelling and pronunciation Dactylichexameter was used for many of Latin s greatest poems. Influenced by Homer s Greek language Greek epics, dactylichexameter was considered the best meter for weighty ... s On The Nature of Things . Dactylichexameter is composed of six feet per line. Each foot is either a dactyl heavy light light or a spondee heavy heavy . Typically, the dactylichexameter s caesura ... pattern of the last two feet. ref Harvnb Allen 2003 p 127 ref Also, dactylichexameter often has ... dactylichexameter. The second is a modified dactylic pentameter line two feet a heavy syllable a half ... word stress and verse ictus in the final two feet of a hexameter ref Harvnb Allen 2003 p 86 ... more details
of metrical feet. Dactyls are the metrical foot of Greek elegiac poetry, which followed a line of dactylichexameter with dactylic pentameter . References references DEFAULTSORT Dactyl Poetry Category ... more details
Unreferenced date October 2006 In Greek and Latin Meter poetry meter , a syllable weight short syllable at the end of a line can be counted as long this phenomenon is known as brevis in longo . The term comes from Latin , and means a short syllable in place of a long syllable . Brevis in longo is possible in any classical meter that requires a long syllable at the end of a line, including dactylic hexameter and iambic trimeter . Brevis in longo is quite distinct from the metrical element anceps , which is a syllable that can be either short or long. These two phenomena are often confused, but there are differences between the two. For example, an anceps will be considered short or long in accordance with its natural length. A brevis in longo , on the other hand, will always be considered long, even though its natural quantity is short the pause at the end of the line adds weight enough for even a short syllable to be counted as long. An additional distinction is the following some classical meters have an anceps syllable in certain positions in the line at the beginning of each metron, for example, in iambic trimeter . The placement of the anceps is dictated by the type of meter. However, all classical meters have the possibility of a brevis in longo , proving that the brevis in longo is a different phenomenon. DEFAULTSORT Brevis In Longo Category Poetic rhythm Category Latin literary phrases ... more details
Resolution is the meter poetry metrical phenomenon in classical poetry of replacing a longum with two brevis brevia . It is generally found in Greek language Greek lyric poetry and in ancient Greece Greek and Ancient Rome Roman drama, most frequently in comedy. It should not be confused with a biceps prosody biceps , which is a point in a meter which can equally be two shorts or a long, as is found in the dactylic hexameter . The biceps is freely able to be two shorts or a long, while resolution, particularly in tragedy, can only occur within very restricted situations. Two resolved longa in the same line is very unusual, for instance, while a biceps that is two shorts can freely be followed by another biceps that is two shorts. Also, two shorts that resolve into a long are almost always within the same word unit. One example from iambic trimeter polytonic u u u u u u u Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 41 Marking metra with and using uu to mark the resolution, we can take this as u u u uu u u Note that the resolved pair is the word , so the resolution stays within the same word unit. External links http www.avalon.net laohu Greek Metrics M 06 4 iambic trimeter resolution1.html Iambic Trimeter Resolutions Category Poetic rhythm ... more details
Bakis or Bacis i.e. speaker, from the Greek language Greek is a general name for the inspired prophet s and dispensers of oracle s who flourished in Ancient Greece Greece from the 8th to the 6th century Before Christ B.C. Suidas mentions three a Boeotia n, an Arcadia n and an Ancient Athens Athenian . The Boeotian The first Bakis, who was the most famous, was said to have been inspired by the nymphs of the Corycian Cave . His oracles, of which specimens are extant in Herodotus and Pausanias , were written in hexameter verse, and were considered to have been strikingly fulfilled. Apocryphal oracular pronouncements in dactylic hexameter s circulated under his name during times of stress, such as the Achaemenid Empire Persian and Peloponnesian War s. Citation needed date September 2009 The Arcadian The Arcadian was said to have cured the women of Sparta of a fit of madness. Many of the oracles which were current under his name have been attributed to Onomacritus . Evolution of the term Bakis According to Erwin Rohde , Bakis was a title originally applied to any one of a class of ecstatic seers, but later came to be thought of as the proper name of an individual. Notes unreferenced date April 2011 reflist References Cite EB1911 wstitle Bakis which in turn cites Herodotus viii. 20, 77, ix. 43 Pausanias iv. 27, ix. 17, x. 12 Schol. Aristoph. Pax , 1070 G ttling, Opuscula Academica 1869 DEFAULTSORT Bakis Category 7th century BC clergy Category 6th century BC clergy Category Classical oracles Category Archaic Greek seers Category Ancient Boeotians Ancient Greece stub bg de Bakis B otien ru uk ... more details
Cleobuline or Cleobulina Flourished c. 550 BC Rhodes , ancient Greece was an ancient Greek poet. Her father was Cleobulus , who was one of the Seven Sages of Greece . She wrote poetry in Dactylic hexameter hexameter verse and was particularly skilled in writing riddle s or enigmas. ref Brooklyn Museum ref ref Ancient Women Philosophers ref Aristotle quotes Cleobulina of Rhodes in both his Poetics Aristotle Poetics and the Rhetoric Aristotle Rhetoric . ref Women Philosophers ref She was sufficiently well known to be satirized in a play by the comic dramatist Cratinus . ref Cleobulina 6th century BC , in Claire Buck, ed., Bloomsbury Guide to Women s Literature , 1992, p. 426 ref Notes Reflist References cite web url http www.brooklynmuseum.org eascfa dinner party heritage floor cleobuline.php title Cleobuline date March 21, 2007 work Dinner Party database of notable women publisher Brooklyn Museum accessdate 2009 09 06 cite web url http www.women philosophers.com Cleobulina of Rhodes.html title Cleobulina of Rhodes 570BCE date 8 April 2009 publisher Women Philosophers web site accessdate 2009 09 06 Menage, Gilles. The History of Women Philosophers. Trans. by Beatrice H. Zedler. New York University Press of America, 1984 . ISBN 0 8191 4271 9 Leon, Vicki. Cleobulina, in Uppity Women of Ancient Greece. San Luis Obispo Tabula Rasa Press, 1989 . ISBN 1 57324 010 9 cite web url http faculty.msmc.edu lindeman cleobulina1.html title Cleobulina of Rhodes work Ancient Women Philosophers publisher Mount St Mary College accessdate 2009 09 06 External links http www.noctes gallicanae.org Lyriques 20grecs cleobulina.htm Cl obulina de Lindos Translations of some of her enigmas in French Accessed Sept 2009 Category Ancient Rhodian poets Category 6th century BC women Category Ancient Greek poets Category 6th century BC Greek people Category 6th century BC poets Category Ancient Greek women writers AncientGreece writer stub ca Cleobulina de Lindos es Cleobulina nl Cleobulin ... more details
The Margites , a comic mock epic of Ancient Greece , is about an idiot named Margites from ancient Greek margos , raving, mad lustful who was so dense he did not know which parent had given birth to him. ref Stuart Kelly, The Book of Lost Books , New York Random House, 2005. ref His name gave rise to the recherch adjective, margitomanes used by Philodemus . ref Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott philologist Robert Scott , A Greek English Lexicon revised edition, Oxford Clarendon Press , 1940. ref It was commonly attributed to Homer , as by Aristotle Poetics 13.92 His Margites indeed provides an analogy as are the Iliad and Odyssey to our tragedies, so is the Margites to our comedies but the work, among a mixed genre of works loosely labelled Homerica in Antiquity, was more reasonably attributed to Pigres of Halicarnassus Pigres , a Greek poet of Halicarnassus , in the massive medieval Greek encyclopedia called Suda . It is written in mixed Dactylic hexameter hexameter and iambic lines, an odd whim of Pigres, who also inserted a pentameter line after each hexameter of the Iliad as a curious literary game. ref Harry Thurston Peck , Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquity, New York, 1898. ref Margites was famous in the ancient world but only these following lines passed from Medieval tradition Him, then, the Gods made neither a delver nor a ploughman, Nor in any other way wise he failed every art. as quoted by Aristotle He knew many things, but he knew them badly as quoted by Plato There came to Colophon an old man and divine singer, a servant of the Muses and of far shooting Apollo. In his dear hands he held a sweet toned lyre as quoted by Atilius Fortunatianus The fox knows many a wile but the hedgehog s one trick can beat them all. as quoted by Zenobius attributed simply to Homer Fortunately, in Oxyrhynchus , a few papyrus fragments were found and published P.Oxy 2309, 3693 and 3694 . The collected fragments were included in volume II of Iambi et Elegi ... more details
displays an obvious caesura in the medial position. In dactylichexameter, a caesura occurs any time .... The ancient elegiac couplet form of the Greeks and Romans contained a line of dactylichexameter ... more details
other uses Diaeresis disambiguation In poetry poetic meter, diaeresis also spelled di resis or dieresis has two meanings the separate pronunciation of the two vowel s in a diphthong for the sake of meter poetry meter , and a division between foot prosody feet that corresponds to the division between words. Synaeresis , the pronunciation of two vowels as a diphthong, is the opposite of the first definition. Etymology Diaeresis comes from from the Greek language Greek noun dia resis taking apart or division also distinction , ref LSJ diai resis ref ref from the verb diair I take apart , ref LSJ diaire w shortref ref a compound linguistics compound of the verb air take and the preposition di through in compounds, apart . ref LSJ aire w and LSJ dia shortref ref Separation of a diphthong Diaeresis as separate pronunciation of vowels in a diphthong was first named where it occurred in the poetry of Homer . Example ... br But my soul is torn about Odysseus the fiery hearted... Odyssey 1 48 In this example, diaereses are in bold. The vowels in each diaeresis are placed in separate syllables when the line is scansion scanned Dactylic hexameter depends on the sequence of long and short or syllable weight heavy and light syllables. It is composed of six foot prosody feet , five of which are in two basic patterns long&ndash short&ndash short dactyl or long&ndash long spondee . In the scansion of the line above, long syllables are uppercase, short syllables are lowercase, and feet are divided by a vertical line. All feet in the line conform to one of the two patterns of dactylic hexameter. If the pairs of vowels are contracted into diphthongs by synaeresis i.e., and the diphthongs are placed in one syllable each, one foot in color c00 red no longer follows the patterns, no matter how the line is scanned color c00 ... more details
Unreferenced date September 2009 Image PyrgiTheban.jpg thumb Detail of clay group with mythological scene from the Theban cycle, from the area of temple A at Pyrgi , mid fifth century BC. The Theban Cycle lang el is a collection of four lost Epic poetry epics of ancient Greek literature which related the mythical history of the Boeotia n city of Thebes, Greece Thebes . They were composed in dactylic hexameter verse and were probably written down between 750 and 500 BC. The 9th century AD scholar and clergyman Photios I of Constantinople Photius , in his Bibliotheca , considered the Theban Cycle part of the Epic Cycle however, modern scholars normally do not. The stories in the Theban Cycle were traditional ones the two Homer ic epics, the Iliad and Odyssey , display knowledge of many of them. The most famous stories in the Cycle were those of Oedipus and of the Seven against Thebes , both of which were heavily drawn on by later writers of Greek tragedy . The epics of the Theban Cycle were as follows The Oedipodea , attributed to Cinaethon of Sparta Cinaethon told the story of Oedipus solution to the Sphinx s riddle, and presumably of his incestuous marriage to his mother Epikaste Epicaste or Jocasta . The Thebaid Greek poem Thebaid , of uncertain authorship but sometimes attributed in antiquity to Homer told the story of the war between Oedipus two sons Eteocles and Polynices , and of Polynices unsuccessful expedition against the city of Thebes, Greece Thebes with six other commanders the Seven Against Thebes , in which both Eteocles and Polynices were killed. The Epigoni epic Epigoni , attributed in antiquity to either Antimachus of Teos or Homer a continuation of the Thebaid , which told the story of the next generation of heroes who attacked Thebes, this time successfully. The Alcmeonis , of unknown authorship told the story of Alcmaeon mythology Alcmaeon s murder of his mother Eriphyle for having arranged the death of his father Amphiaraus told i ... more details
Christian Schesaus 1535 &ndash July 30, 1585 was a Transylvanian Saxon Humanism humanist , poet , Lutheranism Lutheran pastor and a resident of Media . He studied in Bra ov and, from 1556 to 1558, at the University of Wittenberg University of Wittenberg . Ruinae Pannonnicae , his best known work, was written in Latin and composed in dactylic hexameter on the model of Virgil s Aeneid . The subject of the poem dealt with the events in Transylvania , Kingdom of Hungary Hungary , Wallachia and Moldavia over the 31 year period of 1540 to1571. It may be noted that Schesaus insists on the Origin of the Romanians Roman origin and heritage of Romanians , backed by evidence he presents together with proof of Dacians Dacian contributions . The work was first printed in Wittenberg 1571 , and it ensured that Schesaus was awarded the title of Poet Laureate by List of Transylvanian rulers Prince Stephen Bathory, King of Poland Stephen Bathory . Around 1580, Christian Schesaus was living in Biertan he died of the bubonic plague plague . External links http www.primariamedias.ro index.php?id 496 Christian Schesaus at Media City Hall http members.tripod.com medias city id43 m.htm Media personalities http www.sibiu.hermannstadt.ro localitati medias en medias7.htm Sibiu County timeline DEFAULTSORT Schesaus, Christian Category German Lutheran clergy Category Transylvanian Saxons Category Deaths from bubonic plague Category 1535 births Category 1585 deaths Category Infectious disease deaths in Romania Category 16th century Lutheran clergy Category German poets Category Lutheran poets ... more details
Leonine verse is a type of versification based on internal rhyme , and commonly used in Latin verse of the European Middle Ages. The invention of such conscious rhymes, foreign to Classical Latin poetry, is traditionally attributed to a probably apocryphal monk Leonius , who is supposed to be the author of a history of the Old Testament Historia Sacra preserved in the Biblioth que nationale de France Biblioth que Nationale of Paris . This history is composed in Latin verses, all of which rhyme in the center. Fact date September 2007 It is possible that this Leonius is the same person as Leoninus , a Benedictine musician of the twelfth century, in which case he would not have been the original inventor of the form. Another very famous poem in Leonine rhyme is the De Contemptu Mundi of Bernard of Cluny , whose first book begins Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt &mdash vigilemus. br Ecce minaciter imminet arbiter ille supremus. br Imminet imminet ut mala terminet, qua coronet, br Recta remuneret, anxia liberet, thera donet. These are the last days, the worst of times let us keep watch. Behold the menacing arrival of the supreme Judge. He is coming, he is coming to end evil, crown the just, reward the right, set the worried free, and give the skies. As this example of tripartiti dactylici caudati dactylic hexameter rhyming couplet s divided into three shows, the internal rhymes of leonine verse may be based on tripartition of the line as opposed to a caesura in the center of the verse and do not necessarily involve the end of the line at all. References 1911 Category Rhyme Category Medieval Latin literature Category Genres of poetry Category Poetic rhythm ar it Verso leonino ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 The Stone of Terpon or Pebble of Antibes Galet d Antibes is an ancient Artifact archaeology artifact excavated near the seawall of Antibes , France the ancient Antipolis in 1866 http www.archeoprovence.com biblio f.htm . The stone is held in the Mus e d Histoire et d Arch ologie adjacent to that same seawall in Antibes. The stone s inscription has been dated to between 450 425 BC, http poinikastas.csad.ox.ac.uk 4DLink3 4DACTION LSAGwebDisplayInscription?searchTerm WC&searchType browse&searchField region&returnList 0&sequence 0&thisListPosition 267 and the object may once have marked the entrance to a brothel . Fact date September 2007 Inscription The stone is formed in a phallic shape 23 long, 8 thick, 73 lbs. , with a carved inscription in Ionic Greek reading br br br In standard Greek orthography the text would read polytonic br . It forms a distych in dactylic hexameter border 0 T r p n br ei m th br U U s th r br U U p n s m br n s phr br U U d t s br border 0 tois d k br U U t s t br s s k br U U pr s kh r n br U U nt p br U U doi br The inscription can be roughly translated as I am Terpon, servant of noble Aphrodite , may Kypris therefore give grace to those who entrusted me with this task. Catalog references L.H. Jeffery Local Scripts of Archaic Greece LSAG , no. 288.03 H. Roehl, Inscriptiones Graecae antiquissimae IGA , no. 551 H. Roehl, Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum , edition 3 pp. 31 no. 52 Carmina Epigraphica Graeca , no. 400. Euro archaeology stub Category Steles Category Archaeology of France fr Galet de Terpon ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2010 In Latin and Greek poetry, correption is the shortening of a long vowel at the end of one word before a short vowel at the beginning of the next. Vowels next to each other in neighboring words are in hiatus linguistics hiatus . Homer uses correption in dactylic hexameter , , , br , br Odyssey 1 1 2 Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full br many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. br http www.perseus tufts.edu hopper text?doc Perseus text 1999.10.1036 book 1 card 1 translation by A.T. Murray Here the sequence in bold must be pronounced as to preserve the long short short syllable weight Classical poetry syllable weight sequence of a dactyl poetry dactyl . Thus, the scansion of the second line is thus fontcolor steelblue , fontcolor darkgreen & 124 fontcolor darkgreen fontcolor saddlebrown & 124 fontcolor saddlebrown fontcolor steelblue & 124 fontcolor steelblue fontcolor darkgreen & 124 fontcolor darkgreen fontcolor saddlebrown & 124 fontcolor saddlebrown See also Metaplasm Hiatus Category Phonology Category Figures of speech ... more details
For the ancient Phoenician writer, see Mochus . For the 6th century A.D. Syrian writer, see Joannes Moschus . Moschus is also the genus of the musk deer . Moschus lang el , ancient Greek bucolic poet and student of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace , was born at Syracuse, Italy Syracuse and flourished about 150 BC. Aside from his poetry, he was known for his grammatical work, nothing of which survives. His few surviving works consist of a short poem in epic hexameter s, Europa , on the myth of Europa mythology Europa , three bucolic fragments and a whole short bucolic poem Runaway Love , and an epigram in elegiac couplets. His surviving bucolic material composed in the traditional dactylic hexameter s and Doric dialect is short on pastoral themes and is largely erotic and mythological although this impression may be distorted by the paucity of evidence, it is also seen in the surviving bucolic of the generations after Moschus, including the work of Bion of Smyrna . Moschus poetry is typically edited along with other bucolic poets, as in the commonly used Oxford text by A. S. F. Gow 1952 , but the Europa has often received separate scholarly editions, as by Winfried B hler Wiesbaden 1960 and Malcolm Campbell Hildesheim 1991 . The epigram is also normally published with the edition by Maximos Planoudes of the Greek Anthology . The Europa , along with Callimachus Hecale and such Latin examples as Catullus 64, is a major example of the Hellenistic phenomenon of the miniature epic. Although it is hard to tell because of the fragmentary nature of the evidence, Moschus influence on Greek bucolic poetry is likely to have been significant the influence of Runaway Love is felt in Bion and other later bucolic poets. In later European literature his work was imitated or translated by such authors as Torquato Tasso and Ben Jonson . Two other poems, attributed to him at one time or another but no longer thought to be his, are also commonly edited with hi ... more details
Alexander of Villedieu ref Alexander Villedieu, Alexander de Villedieu, Alexandre de Villedieu, Alexander de Villa Dei, Alexandre de Dol, Alexander Dolensis. ref was a French people French author , teacher and poet , who wrote text books on Latin grammar and arithmetic , everything in verse. He was born around 1175 in Villedieu les Po les in Normandy , studied in Paris , and later taught at Dol de Bretagne Dol in Brittany . His greatest fame stems from his versified Latin grammar book, the Doctrinale Puerorum . He died in 1240, or perhaps in 1250. He was a Franciscan and a Master of the University of Paris . ref http www.textmanuscripts.com descriptions manuscripts description 266.pdf Excerpt from Alexander de Villedieu s Doctrinale puerorum at end ref His Doctrinale puerorum , a Latin mnemonics versified grammar , soon became a classic. It was composed around 1200, and was all written in leonine verse leonine hexameter s . Even after several centuries, with the advent of printing, it appeared in countless editions in Italy, Germany and France. It was based on the older works of Aelius Donatus Donatus and Priscian . Alexander also wrote a short tract on arithmetic called Carmen de Algorismo &mdash the Poem about Arithmetic , which also reached a wide distribution. ref While the Doctrinale was in leonine verse, the Carmen in dactylic hexameter s. br http www.peak.org jeremy calculators alKwarizmi.html Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Musa al Khwarizmi Alexander de Villa Dei at end ref A typical line from his Carmen de Algorismo, runs like this Extrahe radicem semper sub parte sinistra Wherein he instructs his students always extract the square root by starting from the left . The poem is not very long, only a few hundred lines, and summarizes the art of calculating with the new style of Indian dice , or Algorism Talibus Indorum , as he calls the new Hindu Arabic numerals . References Dietrich Reichling editor 1893 , http books.google.com books?id 4 ZNAAAAMAAJ&pg RA1 PA1 Das Do ... more details
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