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rhythmos

rhythmos · m

symmetry

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Where it lives

Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
Institutio Oratoria 12 · 0.7/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k

What it meant

rhythmos — Lewis & Short

rhythmos or -us, i, m., = r(uqmo/s,

I symmetry, harmony, rhythm in music or speech, Mart. Cap. 9, § 967 sqq.; Varr. ap. Diom. p. 512 P.; Quint. 9, 4, 45 sq.; 51 sq.; 78; 109 (Cicero constantly has numerus instead of this word, which he writes only as Greek, Or. 20, 67; 51, 170).

In the wild

rhythmos Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.53
rhythmi Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.55
rhythmi Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.54
rhythmis Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 23.450
rhythmis Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.55
rhythmos Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.50

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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