DĒ ARTE METRICĀ

Verba

The new words of this chapter, as the book glosses them. Keep them, and they come back for review just before you would forget them.

• canō -erevōce mūsicā dīcō
• versus -ūs (m)līnea carminis mēnsūrāta
• syllaba -ae (f)pars verbī ūnō spīritū
• mēnsūra -ae (f)modus quō rēs mētītur
• pēs pedis (m, hōc locō)numerus syllabārum rediēns
• dactylus -ī (m)pēs — u u
• spondēus -ī (m)pēs — —
• hexameter -trī (m)versus sex pedum
• ēlīsiō -ōnis (f)vōcālis expulsa ante vōcālem
• prōsa ōrātiōverba solūta, sine versibus
• gradior -īlentē incēdō
• fidicen -inis (m)quī fidibus canit

Lege

Read the chapter. The glosses stand in the margin; point at any other word for its meaning.

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Pēnsum

The exercises for this chapter are being written. Keep the words and read the chapter; the lesson counts as done without them.