The corpus record — Latin

hexameter

hexameter · m

a verse consisting of six feet

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Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Institutio Oratoria 3 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

hexămĕter — Lewis & Short

hexămĕter (hexămetrus, tri, m., = e(ca/metros (of six measures), with or without versus,

Ter. Maur. p. 2430 P.),

I a verse consisting of six feet, a hexameter: versus, Lucil. ap. Porphyr. Hor. S. 1, 5, 87; so, metrum, Isid. 1, 38, 6: Antipater ille Sidonius solitus est versus hexametros aliosque variis modis atque numeris fundere ex tempore, Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 194: hexametrorum instar versuum, id. Or. 66, 222: liber scriptus ab eo hexametris versibus, Suet. Aug. 85: in longis versibus qui hexametri dicuntur, Gell. 18, 15, 1 (cf. Enn. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 27, 68): initium hexametri, Quint. 9, 4, 78; cf. § 74: finis hexametri, id. 9, 4, 75; Ter. Maur. p. 2441: iambicus, whose sixth foot is an iambus, Diom. p. 516 P.

In the wild

hexametris Suetonius, Divus Augustus 85.2
hexametri Ausonius, Epistularum 14.88
hexametros Statius, Silvae 1.pr
hexametri Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.75
hexametri Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.74
hexametros Statius, Silvae 2.pr

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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