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I had toyed with writing a response in hexameter verse, but that would have been pushing it, no?
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As European students learnt Latin, they learnt how to translate Virgil and Homer, how to write imitation verses and how to write in hexameter and with rhyme.
Starting the Young : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
I have, accordingly, ventured to elicit the end of a hexameter from the Greek letters of the MS., of which no satisfactory account has been given, and to read _Itaque dixit statim "respublica lege maiestatis_ οὐ σοί κεν ἄρ 'ἶσα μ' ἀφείη (or ἀφιῇ)."
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
He followed her to Switzerland one summer, and all the time that he was dangling after her (a little too conspicuously, I always thought, for a Great Man), he was writing to me about his theory of vowel-combinations -- or was it his experi - ments in English hexameter?
The Muse's Tragedy 1899
Well might Egbert be proud of his librarian: the first, I believe upon record, who has composed a catalogue [234] of books in Latin hexameter verse: and full reluctantly, I ween, did this librarian take leave of his _Cell_ stored with the choicest volumes -- as we may judge from his pathetic address to it, on quitting England for France!
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
The poems of Homer have the most perfect metre, the hexameter, which is also called heroic.
It is called hexameter because each line has six feet: one of these is of two long syllables, called spondee; the other, of three syllables, one long and two short, which is called dactyl.
In vi. 65 he apologizes for using the pure hexameter, which is found only four times.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
This Latin hexameter, which is commonly ascribed to Horace, appeared for the first time as an epigraph to President Hénaults Abrégé Chronologique, and in the preface to the third edition of this work Hénault acknowledges that he had given it as a translation of this couplet.
Quotations 1919
This Latin hexameter, which is commonly ascribed to Horace, appeared for the first time as an epigraph to President Hénaults Abrégé Chronologique, and in the preface to the third edition of this work Hénault acknowledges that he had given it as a translation of this couplet.
Quotations 1919