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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

  • ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ Ἀρχίλοχοσ τὴν τῶν τριμέτρων ῥυθμοποιίαν προσεξεῦρε καὶ τὴν εἰσ τοὺσ οὐχ ὁμογενεῖσ ῥυθμοὺσ ἔντασιν καὶ τὴν παρακαταλογὴν καὶ τὴν περὶ ταῦτα κροῦσιν· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 28 2:1)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ Ἀρχίλοχοσ τὴν τῶν τριμέτρων ῥυθμοποιϊάν προσεξεῦρε καὶ τὴν εἰσ τοὺσ οὐχ ὁμογενεῖσ ῥυθμοὺσ ἔντασιν καὶ τὴν παρακαταλογὴν καὶ τὴν περὶ ταῦτα κροῦσιν· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , section33)
  • ἐπεὶ καὶ Ἕρμιπποσ ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ Ιἄμβῳ τῶν Τριμέτρων Ἀσκληπιοῦ καὶ Λαμπετίασ τῆσ Ἡλίου λέγει Μαχάονα καὶ Ποδαλείριον καὶ Ιἀσὼ καὶ Πανάκειαν καὶ Αἴγλην νεωτάτην. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 1)
  • λέγω μὴν ὅτι ποιηταί τε ἡμῖν εἰσί τινεσ ἐπῶν ἑξαμέτρων πάμπολλοι καὶ τριμέτρων καὶ πάντων δὴ τῶν λεγομένων μέτρων, οἱ μὲν ἐπὶ σπουδήν, οἱ δ’ ἐπὶ γέλωτα ὡρμηκότεσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section83)
  • λέγω μὴν ὅτι ποιηταί τε ἡμῖν εἰσίν τινεσ ἐπῶν ἑξαμέτρων πάμπολλοι καὶ τριμέτρων καὶ πάντων δὴ τῶν λεγομένων μέτρων, οἱ μὲν ἐπὶ σπουδήν, οἱ δ’ ἐπὶ γέλωτα ὡρμηκότεσ, ἐν οἷσ φασι δεῖν οἱ πολλάκισ μυρίοι τοὺσ ὀρθῶσ παιδευομένουσ τῶν νέων τρέφειν καὶ διακορεῖσ ποιεῖν, πολυηκόουσ τ’ ἐν ταῖσ ἀναγνώσεσιν ποιοῦντασ καὶ πολυμαθεῖσ, ὅλουσ ποιητὰσ ἐκμανθάνοντασ· (Plato, Laws, book 7 141:3)

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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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