| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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Book i. Ode iv. In alternate lines, one of seventeen syllables and the other of eleven, thus:
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Below is a translation of the first four lines in this Horatian metre (rhyming): | 2 |
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| Now that the winter is past, blithe spring to the balmy fields inviteth, |
| And lo! from the dry sands men their keels are hauling; |
| Cattle no longer their stalls affect, nor the hind his hearth delighteth, |
| Nor deadly Frost spreads over meads her palling. | |
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 See ALCAIC, ASCLEPIADIC, CHORIAMBIC, SAPPHIC, etc. (See also HEXAMETERS, and HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS.) | 3 |
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