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ἑξάμετρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑξάμετρος ἑξάμετρον

Structure: ἑξαμετρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of six metres, hexameter

Examples

  • αὐτίκα τοῖσ μὲν ἐποποιοῖσ μέτρον οὐκ ἔξεστι μεταβάλλειν, ἀλλ’ ἀνάγκη πάντασ εἶναι τοὺσ στίχουσ ἑξαμέτρουσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 196)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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