10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OCTONARIAN»
Discover the use of
octonarian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
octonarian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Roman Poets of the Republic
In the longer passages in which they occur, these metres are generally combined
with some form of trochaic verse, which again is often exchanged for septenarian
or octonarian iambics. Of the rapid transitions with which Plautus passes from ...
William Young Sellar, 1881
2
Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Horace and the Elegiac Poets
In the longer passages in which they occur, these metres are generally combined
with some form of trochaic verse, which again is often exchanged for septenarian
or octonarian iambics. Of the rapid transitions with which Plautus passes from ...
W. Y. Sellar, William Y. Sellar, 1892
3
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, ...
Svenska Vetenskaps-Akad. Handl.' vol. viii., 1869) Dr. J. G. O. Linnarsson
described and figured two small Ostracodes which apparently have some
relationship with the form described above as a doubtful member of the
Octonarian group.
In about a third of the octonarian iambics found in Plautus the diaeresis occurs in
the middle of a word, or there is elision at it. For about twelve or fourteen lines in
this metre occurring in the play the text supposes the first half of the line to end ...
5
The Athenæum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine ...
The assumption, in the introduction and notes, of asynartete scansion of the two
halves of the octonarian and septenarian iambic lines seems often open to
question. In about a third of the octonarian iambics found in Plautus the diaeresis
...
6
The Mathematical Gazette
The Baron showed me an Octonarian slide-rule, and it seemed to me that the
graduations ran more smoothly than those of a common slide-rule. He had, too,
an Octonarian watch, the hours of which were sixty-fourths of a day, each hour
being ...
7
Havton timorvmenos: with introduction and notes
The metres of this scene change with extraordinary frequency, more often than in
any other part of the play: 562-563 octonarian trochaics, 564 a septenarian
trochaic, 565 octonarian iambic, 566 quaternarian iambic, 567-9 octonarian
trochaics ...
Terence, Joseph Henry Gray, 1895
8
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Supplement
See □ *nuckus. La. In ninth., of the eighth degree or order, oil. oculonasal (ok'u-
16-'na'zal), «. [L. ocnlus, -Octlc equation, surface. See ^equation, ^surface,
octonarian (ok-to-na'ri-an), a. and n. [L. eve, + nasus, nose, '+ -ali'.] Relating to
both II.
William Dwight Whitney, 1910
9
The Gentleman's Magazine
Middleton, hit usher, not only in English, Latin, and Greek, but also in Hebrew
and French, in mathema- Ope* run reJJunt beatum. En, ubi celsa domus nitidia
stat. l. *f. g. 9 . 1. An. Octonarian. Discriptien. as. Bojtjh. Dayt. at. Trcnthatn . ao. t.
10
The Miles Gloriosus of T. Maccius Plautus: A Revised Text, ...
(2). In the casura of the verse. (3). In the diceresis of the verse; that is, in those
verses which fall naturally into two parts, as octonarian and septenarian iambics
and trochaics, and cretic tetrameters. To these may be added (though by no
means ...
Titus Maccius Plautus, Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, 1920
