See also:

• CAESURA (Lat. for " cutting," Gr. row))

CAESURA (See also:

• LAT

Lat. for " cutting," Gr. See also:

• ROW, JOHN (c. 1525—1580)

row))  , in See also:

• PROSODY (Gr. rpovwSta)

prosody, a See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest or pause, usually occurring about the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of a See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, which is thereby separated into two parts (e&Xa, members) . In See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek and Latin hexameters the best and most See also:

• COMMON

common See also:

• CAESURA (Lat. for " cutting," Gr. row))

caesura is the penthemimeral (i.e. after the 5th See also:

• HALF

half-See also:

• FOOT

foot) : Wimp aerSe, See also:

• BELA
• BELA, LAS BELA

Bela, I HjXr aISecs'AX.1)'Sios Arma vi rumque ca I no, Tro I jae qui I See also:

• PRIMUS, MARCUS ANTONIUS

primus ab oris . Another caesura very common in See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer, but rare in Latin verse, is after the 2nd syllable of the 3rd See also:

• DACTYL (from Gr. S&crvXo , a finger)

dactyl: Otral vorot re 17raos AEI Os S' ere IXelero /IouXi1 . On the other See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, the hephthemimeral caesura (i.e. after the 7th half-foot) is common in Latin, but rare in Greek: Formo sam reso nare do Ices Ama I ryllida silvas, The " bucolic " caesura, See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar to Greek (so called because it is chiefly found in writers like See also:

• THEOCRITUS

Theocritus) occurs after the 4th dactyl: "Avbpa µor Evv€re, I Moi aa, ro I X6rporov, I Ss paXa I roA]Aa In the See also:

• PENTAMETER

pentameter verse of the elegiac distich the caesura is always penthemimeral . In the See also:

• IAMBIC

iambic trimeter (consisting of three dipodia or pairs of feet), both in Greek and Latin, the most usual caesura is the penthemimeral; next, the hephthemimeral: 'St TEK pa AO.SI /,ov rol 1 rbXat I via I rpo4 Supplex 1 et o I ro reg I na per 1 Proser pinae . Verses in which neither of these caesuras occurs are considered faulty . On the other hand, secondary or subsidiary caesuras are found in both Greek and Latin; thus, a trithemimcral (after the 3rd half-foot) is combined with the hephthemimeral, which divides the verse into two unequal parts . A caesura is often called masculine when it falls after a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long, feminine when it falls after a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short syllable . The best See also:

• TREATISE

treatise on Greek and Latin See also:

• METRE ((terpuc?, sc. rFxvf, from Gr. Or poi', measure)

metre for See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general use is L . See also:

• MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
• MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
• MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
• MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
• MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
• MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
• MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
• MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
• MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
• MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)

Muller, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Metrik der Griechen and Romer (1885) ; see also the See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article VERSE .