senarii

Iambic senarii were spoken; other metres were sung; but the scenes in septenarii stood midway between the dialogue and the _canticum_.

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The longest poems in the work are: (1) _Troiae halosis_ (ch. 89), 65 senarii, supposed to be a parody of Nero's poem of the same name; (2) _De bello civili_

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Books i. -xx. and xxx. were in hexameters; xxii. in elegiacs; xxvi. -xxvii. in trochaic septenarii; and the next two in trochaic septenarii, iambic senarii, and hexameters.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

_The arguments_, consisting of twelve senarii each, were composed by

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

_ 184, 'Comicorum senarii propter similitudinem sermonis sic saepe sunt abiecti ut non numquam vix in eis numerus et versus intellegi possit.'

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

More than half of the verses are iambic senarii, the next commonest being troch.septen. and iamb. octon.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

The metrical treatment is strict, especially in the senarii.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Only about a fourth of Plautus 'verses are in iambic senarii, while in Terence, who followed Menander in this respect, about half of the verses are in this form.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

_ -- These are in _senarii_, and give a summary of each play.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Most are iambic senarii, some trochaic septenarii.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills