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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

  • οὐδὲ γὰρ οἱ τὰσ τραγῳδίασ ποιοῦντεσ ἔτι χρῶνται τὸν αὐτὸν πρόπον, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ καὶ ἐκ τῶν τετραμέτρων εἰσ τὸ ἰαμβεῖον μετέβησαν διὰ τὸ τῷ λόγῳ τοῦτο τῶν μέτρων ὁμοιότατον εἶναι τῶν ἄλλων, οὕτω καὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων ἀφείκασιν ὅσα παρὰ τὴν διάλεκτόν ἐστιν, οἷσ δ’ οἱ πρῶτοι ἐκόσμουν, καὶ ἔτι νῦν οἱ τὰ ἑξάμετρα ποιοῦντεσ ἀφείκασιν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 1 9:4)

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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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