senarius

Consequently the common medium for conversation or for the narrative in a composition like comedy made up entirely of verse is the senarius.

The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Frank Frost Abbott 1892

If we should arrange the commoner Latin verses in a sequence according to the emotional effects which they produce, at the bottom of the series would stand the iambic senarius.

The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Frank Frost Abbott 1892

In this way it becomes a short realistic story of every-day people, involving frequently a love intrigue, and told in the iambic senarius, the simplest form of verse.

The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Frank Frost Abbott 1892

As soon as the suspense is over, it drops to the iambic senarius.

The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Frank Frost Abbott 1892

His technical skill is very considerable; the iambic senarius becomes in his hands an extremely pleasing rhythm, though the occurrence of spondees in the second and fourth place savours of archaic usage.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

Was it the Greek verse, containing one senarius with a long syllable before the caesura in the fifth foot, as Herbert pointed out to his brother on the very evening when that hideous oversight -- say rather crime -- had been openly perpetrated in plain black and white on a virgin sheet of innocent paper?

Philistia Grant Allen 1873

[Greek: homosporon] was doubtless obliterated by the gloss [Greek: adelpheon] (an Ionic form ill suited to the senarius), and the [Greek: homoioteleuton] caused the remainder of the error.

Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1840