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τετράμετρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τετράμετρος τετράμετρον

Structure: τετραμετρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/tron

Sense

  1. consisting of four metres, consisting of four double feet or syzygies, the trochaic tetrameter

Examples

  • πρώτῳ δ’ αὐτῷ τὰ τ’ ἐπῳδὰ καὶ τὰ τετράμετρα καὶ τὸ κρητικὸν καὶ τὸ προσοδιακὸν ἀποδέδοται καὶ ἡ τοῦ ἡρῴου αὔξησισ, ὑπ’ ἐνίων δὲ καὶ τὸ ἐλεγεῖον, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ ἥ τε τοῦ ἰαμβείου πρὸσ τὸν ἐπιβατὸν παίωνα ἔντασισ καὶ ἡ τοῦ ηὐξημένου ἡρῴου εἴσ τε τὸ προσοδιακὸν καὶ τὸ κρητικόν· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 28 3:1)
  • δηλοῖ δὲ τὰ τετράμετρα· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 8 4:3)
  • ἔστι γὰρ τροχερὸσ ῥυθμὸσ τὰ τετράμετρα. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 8 4:4)
  • πρώτῳ δ’ αὐτῷ τά τ’ ἐπῳδὰ καὶ τὰ τετράμετρα καὶ τὸ κρητικὸν καὶ τὸ προσοδιακὸν ἀποδέδοται καὶ ἡ τοῦ ἡρῴου αὔξησισ, ὑπ’ ἐνίων δὲ καὶ τὸ ἐλεγεῖον, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ ἥ τε τοῦ ἰαμβείου πρὸσ τὸν ἐπιβατὸν παιῶνα ἔντασισ καὶ ἡ τοῦ ηὐξημένου ἡρῴου εἴσ τε τὸ προσοδιακὸν καὶ τὸ κρητικόν· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , section34)
  • καὶ ὁ Ἑρμογένησ, ἦ οὖν βούλεσθε, ἔφη, ὥσπερ Νικόστρατοσ ὁ ὑποκριτὴσ τετράμετρα πρὸσ τὸν αὐλὸν κατέλεγεν, οὕτω καὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ αὐλοῦ ὑμῖν διαλέγωμαι; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 6 4:4)

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

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