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Quod ita dicimus esse faciendum ut in medio uersus metrum cum pausa serveture: non protrahendo uocem in pausa uel fine uersus.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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It comes partly from the Latin metrum (meaning poetic meter or an object used formeasuring), and partly from the Greek metron (poetic meter, measure, rule, length, size).
The Grammarphobia Blog » Blog Archive » Franglais speaking 2010
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Mays 'note, Such interjections extra metrum are rare in
Annotations 2007
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Sidonius _Carm_ XXIII 485-86 'horum nomina cum referre uersu/affectus cupiat, metrum recusat'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Praeterea metrum, quo concinnati sunt hi versus, de quo metro mox disseram, recentiorem aetatem arguit.
Ramayana. English Valmiki 1866
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_Chronosticha_ on these wretched times, in _metrum heroicum_, which, I must say, pleased me greatly.
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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Meanwhile I finished my _carmen_ in _metrum elegiacum_, which my daughter transcribed (seeing that her handwriting is fairer than mine) and diligently learned, so that she might say it to his Majesty.
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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_Chronosticha_ on these wretched times, in _metrum heroicum_, which, I must say, please me greatly.
Maria Schweidler die Bernsteinhexe. English Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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Meanwhile I finished my _carmen_ in _metrum elegiacum_, which my daughter transcribed (seeing that her handwriting is fairer than mine) and diligently learned, so that she might say it to his Majesty.
Maria Schweidler die Bernsteinhexe. English Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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Itaque arbitror no - bis diftantia Terrae lemidiau bisattdaAerdicendttm, inTer - metrum quinquagies & xie8
Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, id est opera, exceptis vitis, reliqua: Plutarchi Chaeronensis ... 1797
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