10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PENTHEMIMERAL»
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penthemimeral in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Verse of Greek Comedy
Each of these has either penthemimeral or hephthemimeral caesura combined
with one of the other pauses mentioned above. Other combinations are possible,
but verses are very rare that have both penthemimeral and hephthemimeral ...
John Williams White, 1912
2
Inscribing Sorrow: Fourth-Century Attic Funerary Epigrams
These observations implicitly indicate that the frequency of elision at the
penthemimeral caesura may well be a by-product of the high percentage of
penthemimeral caesuras in the extant corpus of fourth-century Attic inscribed
epitaphs. This is ...
3
Homer's Winged Words: The Evolution of Early Greek Epic ...
Two common metrical spaces: penthemimeral caesura to bucolic diaeresis;
hephthemimeral caesura to end of fifth foot. 2. w w / — / _ Three common metrical
spaces: first-foot masculine caesura to penthemimeral caesura; second-foot ...
4
The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman ...
In 15 of the 24 cases when a participle in -6/xevos, -d^itvos is used before the
penthemimeral caesura and is followed by a word beginning with a vowel, we
find this device. The other is close to it. (2) The poet begins his line with a finite
form of ...
Milman Parry, Adam Parry, 1987
Spondaic ei (= ejjl) occurs seven times, always in the last foot.1 Spondaic -at is
oftenest found in the last foot, though it also occurs as the first word in the line, or
as the word immediately following or immediately preceding the penthemimeral ...
6
Res metrica: an introduction to the study of Greek & Roman ...
would be hephthemimeral, and about two-thirds 'penthemimeral. 'Trochaic' would
be Mr. Butcher's 'abnormal trochaic' — 119. But there are more than that, though
not, I think, many more : lines to be added are those like Norden's litora ...
William Ross Hardie, 1920
7
Remarks, explanatory and illustrative, on the Terentian ...
Of the latter there are four species. 1. Trihemimeral occurring at the third half foot.
2. Penthemimeral, .... fifth .... 3. Hepthemimeral, .... seventh . . . 4. Ennemimeral,
ninth . In the Sapphic verses of Horace we find the Penthemimeral Caesura ; as,
...
8
A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition
This "main caesura" typically occurs either after two-and-a-half feet (called "
penthemimeral," i.e. after five half- feet) or after three-and-a-half feet (called "
hephfhemimeral," i.e. after seven half- feet). The penthemimeral caesura is
somewhat ...
9
The Authenticity of the Rhesus of Euripides
So far our observations have been based on the statistics presented by Descroix.
It seems however that they are not always accurate. An independent analysis for
Rhesus yields a slightly lower proportion of penthemimeral caesura : 83-6 ...
10
Homeric Stitchings: The Homeric Centos of the Empress Eudocia
It is worth emphasizing that there is nothing overly technical about this. Eudocia
too joins Homeric half-lines at the caesuras (Where else would she join
hemistichs?) Eleven of her thirty half-lines are joined at the weak penthemimeral
caesura: ...
