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τρίμετρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρίμετρος τρίμετρον

Structure: τριμετρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/tron

Sense

  1. consisting of three metres;, of three syzygies, of three metres or six feet, versus senarius, trimeter

Examples

  • ἐπὶ τετραμέτρῳ τῷ γεγονότι ἀπὸ ἀρτίου τριμέτρου κατὰ πρόσθεσιν βάσεωσ τελευταίασ μείουρον τρίμετρον ἰὼ παρέρπων, μικρόν, εἴ τι κἀγκονεῖσ, ἄκουσον τὰ Βότρυοσ περισσὰ δῆτα κήδη, ὃσ πρέσβυσ ὀγδώκοντ’ ἐτῶν τὸν ἐννέων ἔθαψεν ἤδη τι τέχνᾳ καὶ σοφὸν λέγοντα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 13, chapter 231)

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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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