dactylic

Speech parts

1. dactylic - Noun

2. dactylic - Adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.

A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.

Dactylic meters.

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Epic poetry is divinely inspired (Iliad I: I) and as such is just as true as oracles, and for the same reason. It is no accident that oracles (such as those at Delphi) were enunciated in the same dactylic hexameter as the epic. Cyrus H. Gordon

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A treatise on poetry by Diomedes Grammaticus is a good example, as this work (among other things) categorizes dactylic hexameter verses in ways that were later interpreted under the golden line rubric. Source: Internet

Classical epic employs dactylic hexameter and recounts a journey, either physical (as typified by Odysseus in the Odyssey ) or mental (as typified by Achilles in the Iliad ) or both. Source: Internet

Hesiod's handling of the dactylic hexameter was not as masterful or fluent as Homer's and one modern scholar refers to his "hobnailed hexameters". Source: Internet

However, the only obvious imperfections are a few lines of verse that are metrically unfinished (i.e. not a complete line of dactylic hexameter ). Source: Internet

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