Crossword-Solution: HEXAMETER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hexameter | n. | A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity. |
| Hexameter | a. | Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “HEXAMETER”
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| Measure used in the "Iliad" | 1 answer |
| Metrical line with six feet | 1 answer |
| Heroic verse. | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HEXAMETER (5)
Nor, when checking each of the average six to seven words contained in the Virgilian hexameter for its usage elsewhere in Virgil's works or other Latin authors, would DALY have had to maintain the laborious mechanical process of flipping through these concordances, lexica, and editions each time.
This made Tacitus, in the very first line of his story, fall upon a verse;[P] and Cicero, the worst of poets, but declaiming for a poet, falls in the very first sentence upon a perfect hexameter.[Q] I feel not in me those sordid and unchristian desires of my profession; I do not secretly implore and wish for plagues, rejoice at famines, revolve ephemerides and almanacks in expectation of malignant aspects, fatal conjunctions, and eclipses.
Then suddenly Robert remembered how the whole of the Greek invocation song of seven thousand lines had been condensed by him into one English hexameter, so he stood on the carpet and chanted-- ‘Oh, come along, come along, you good old beautiful Phoenix,’ and almost at once there was a rustle of wings down the kitchen stairs, and the Phoenix sailed in on wide gold wings.
They evolved the hexameter; the _laisse_ of the _Chansons de Geste_; the strange technicalities of Scandinavian poetry; the metres of Vedic hymns; the choral odes of Greece.
Stonyhurst and others had tried their hands at hexameter translations from the Latin and Greek epics, which seem to have been doggerel enough; and ever and anon some youthful wit broke out in iambics, sapphics, elegiacs, and what not, to the great detriment of the queen's English and her subjects' ears.
Quotes with HEXAMETER (1)
Stephen nodded. 'Tell me,' he said, in a low voice, some moments later. 'Were I under naval discipline, could that fellow have me whipped?'He nodded towards Mr Marshall. 'The master?' cried Jack, with inexpressible amazement. 'Yes,' said Stephen looking attentively at him, with his head slightly inclined to the left. 'But he is the master...' said Jack. If Stephen had called the sophies stem her stern, or her truck her keel, he would have understood the situation directly; bu…
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Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1987–2019).