Some fragments use meters from non-Aeolic traditions ( e . g . dactylic hexameter, or the Ionic meter of Sappho fr . 134 ).
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It consists of 1029 verses in Greek, starting with 134 lines of iambic trimeter, with the remainder in the classical meter of epic, dactylic hexameter.
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Virgil, his contemporary, composed dactylic hexameters on light and serious themes and his verses are generally regarded as " the supreme metrical system of Latin literature ".
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Homeric Greek is used in the first epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns, traditionally attributed to Homer and written in dactylic hexameter.
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The work, comprising 261 dactylic hexameters, has come down via a single manuscript once preserved in the monastery of florilegia, the manuscripts of which are still extant.
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Both comprise lines ten syllables long, typically in iambic pentameter . ) The second form he stated was dactylic hexameter ( the form employed by Homer and Virgil ).
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His first known work, written while he was in Cologne, was a poem in dactylic hexameters, " Brevis descriptio belli Monasteriensis contra anabaptistica monstra gesti ".
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Several attempts were made in the 19th century to naturalise the dactylic hexameter to English, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur Hugh Clough and others, none of them particularly successful.
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In his " Life of Terence ", Suetonius preserves six lines of dactylic hexameter by Caesar praising the Roman playwright, along with a more lukewarm assessment by Cicero.
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Appropriately for its subject, the " Ars Amatoria " is composed in elegiac couplets, rather than the dactylic hexameters, which are more usually associated with the didactic poem.
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