hexămĕter | hexămetrus (noun M) = ἑξάμετρος: (, Ter. Maur. p. 2430 P.), , , = (of six measures), with or without versus
* A verse consisting of six feet, a hexameter: versus, Lucil. ap. Porphyr. Hor. S. 1, 5, 87; so, metrum,Isid. 1, 38, 6: Antipater ille Sidonius solitus est versus hexametros aliosque variis modis atque numeris fundere ex tempore,Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 194: hexametrorum instar versuum,id. Or. 66, 222: liber scriptus ab eo hexametris versibus,Suet. Aug. 85: in longis versibus qui hexametri dicuntur,Gell. 18, 15, 1 (cf. Enn. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 27, 68): initium hexametri,Quint. 9, 4, 78; cf. § 74: finis hexametri,id. 9, 4, 75; Ter. Maur. p. 2441: iambicus,whose sixth foot is an iambus,Diom. p. 516 P.

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