10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAROEMIAC»
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1
Speaking Volumes: Orality and Literacy in the Greek and ...
Some commentators, including Gregory Nagy, Ezio Pellizer, and J. A. Fernandez
Delgado, have further suggested that a traditional meter, the so-called paroemiac
, was associated with gnomic expressions.'3 The paroemiac, named after one ...
2
Euripides, Hecuba: Introduction, Text, and Commentary
89 ww — II paroemiac 90 ww-ww-ww-ww — dactylic hexameter qi -ww-ww-ww
v.w — dactylic hexameter 92 — w w — w w anapest 22 - w w w w - anapestic
dimeter 94 — „ „ ww- anapestic dimeter 95 _ w w — ww-ww- anapestic dimeter
96 ...
Euripides, Justina Gregory, 1999
3
A System of Latin Versification: In a Series of Progressive ...
otherwise called a Paroemiac, it having been a favorite vehicle for proverbs (
Ilapoi/xiai). 8. The Latin writers, however, do not, as often as the Greeks, close a
system of Dimeters by a Paroemiac. Seneca never does. 9. It must be borne in
mind ...
4
A system of Greek prosody and metre: for the use of schools ...
Med. 1368; Electr. 1333; Soph. (Ed. Col. 139, 143, 170, 173, 1757 ; Antig. 931. It
is violated sometimes, also, at the end of a sentence, and likewise in
exclamations, as in JEsch. Agam. 1544.2 VIII. The paroemiac verse has its scale
as ...
5
The Authenticity of Prometheus Bound
It might be objected that the ratio depends on the exigencies of the drama, that
e.g. short anapaestic passages of only half-a-dozen or so metra plus their
paroemiac might be required in some plays, not in others, and thus lower the
ratio for ...
6
Studies in Latin Poetry
also called a paroemiac, which shows the form ^-ww-ww-w. In some ways these
paroemiac metres provide a better analogue to the Saturnian than does the
iambic dimeter. They have anapestic affinities, and anapestic dimeters, unlike
their ...
Christopher Mounsey Dawson, Thomas Cole, 1969
7
Studies in Latin Poetry
also called a paroemiac, which shows the form w-uu-uu-y. In some ways these
paroemiac metres provide a better analogue to the Saturnian than does the
iambic dimeter. They have anapestic affinities, and anapestic dimeters, unlike
their ...
8
A Manual of Latin Prosody
The third foot of the Paroemiac must always be an Anapaest. We shall give a
specimen of each of these three species, premising that Seneca does not follow
the example of the Greeks in closing a system of Dimeters by a Paroemiac. a.
9
The Plays of Sophocles: The Oedipus Coloneus
I prefer, with Campbell and Jebb, to divide 1756,7 as follows: tu(iPov OeXo(iev
rcpoai8eTv auxai / rcaxpo? .f\\itxipou. Now the mss have in 1758 dXX' ou Oe(
iix6v xeiae (ioXeiv. Campbell alone among modern edd. retains this as a
paroemiac ...
Jan Coenraad Kamerbeek, 1963
10
Hermann's elements of the doctrine of metres,: abridged and ...
Nor is it necessary that there should be a full stop after the paroemiac verse, for
sometimes even a comma is sufficient, as in the Agam. (>.">. bxaKvaiofjtivris r iv
irporeXeioit KufiaKos di)oa>v Auruoiiric, Tpiuai ff ofioiws. On which see Elem.
