hexameters

'Rusticatio Mexicana' a poetic work of 3,425 Latin hexameters, in

Miguel Angel Asturias - Nobel Lecture 1968

Composed initially in Greek hexameters they purported to be pronouncements from Greek oracles designed to con - vert the Greeks to Jewish belief.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas GORDON LEFF 1968

I began (presumably in the holidays) an epic on Cuchulain and another on Finn, in English hexameters and in fourteeners respectively.

Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955

I read the Latin first, and then my own version in English hexameters, that I had prepared for a recitation at school.

The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915

The name of the poet who in 1175 composed in Latin hexameters the first "animal" epic, "Ecbasis cuius dam captivi per tropologiam", is also unknown.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

So on the Continent, to take but one example, we have an elaborate calendar or rather martyrologium composed about 848 in Latin hexameters by Wandelbert of Prüm.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Strabo's life of this saint is in Latin hexameters, and is to be found in Messingham's "Florilegium Insulæ Sanctorum"

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

In gratitude he wrote a long poem in Latin hexameters, celebrating the deeds of Christ and of the first saints in Palestine and Antioch, adding a versified narration of the history of the popes.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

His first work was a paraphrase of the Book of Job in Latin hexameters (1637), resumed and accompanied by a commentary in 1679.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

About the time when the "Waltharius" was revised, there appeared another epic poem "Ruodlieb" -- a romance in Latin hexameters by an unknown author, describing the adventurous fate of the hero -- which is unfortunately only partly extant.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913