Brevis brevians, also known as iambic shortening or correptio iambica, is a metrical feature of early Latin verse, especially Plautus and Terence, in...

possibility of brevis in longo is found universally across all metres, while the anceps is found only in particular verse forms. Also, a brevis in longo is...

βραχεῖα (sullabḕ brakheîa). In Latin the terms are syllaba longa and syllaba brevis. The process of deciding which syllables are long and which are short is...

exceptions to these rules are found, most notably the phenomenon called brevis brevians, in which an unstressed long syllable can be shortened after a short...

In Greek and Latin metre, brevis in longo (/ˈbrɛvɪs ɪn ˈlɒŋɡoʊ/; Classical Latin: [ˈbrɛwɪs ɪn ˈlɔŋɡoː]) is a short syllable at the end of a line that...

The literal meaning of brevis breviāns is "a short syllable which shortens (a following long one)". As a rule, brevis breviāns is found in places in iambo-trochaic...

(poetry) Metrical foot Metron (poetry) Brevis in longo Anceps Biceps (prosody) Resolution (meter) Brevis brevians Porson's Law Arsis and thesis Catalexis...

(poetry) Metrical foot Metron (poetry) Brevis in longo Anceps Biceps (prosody) Resolution (meter) Brevis brevians Porson's Law Arsis and thesis Catalexis...

feature found in Plautus and Terence, namely iambic shortening or brevis breviāns, where the syllables ab ex- are scanned as two short syllables. In...

u – – Fusce, pharetrā... /=stressed syllable; ×=unstressed syllable; ∩=brevis in longo This can be translated as: 'A man of integrity, untainted by sin...

shortening of post or pre-accentual syllables in Plautus and Terence by brevis brevians, for example, scansions such as senex and voluptātem with the second...

(poetry) Metrical foot Metron (poetry) Brevis in longo Anceps Biceps (prosody) Resolution (meter) Brevis brevians Porson's Law Arsis and thesis Catalexis...

(poetry) Metrical foot Metron (poetry) Brevis in longo Anceps Biceps (prosody) Resolution (meter) Brevis brevians Porson's Law Arsis and thesis Catalexis...

| x — u — | u — — — As in all classical verse forms, the phenomenon of brevis in longo is observed, so the last syllable can actually be short or long...

(poetry) Metrical foot Metron (poetry) Brevis in longo Anceps Biceps (prosody) Resolution (meter) Brevis brevians Porson's Law Arsis and thesis Catalexis...

(poetry) Metrical foot Metron (poetry) Brevis in longo Anceps Biceps (prosody) Resolution (meter) Brevis brevians Porson's Law Arsis and thesis Catalexis...

word velint "they wish" is pronounced as two short syllables (uu) by brevis brevians, a metrical feature common in Plautus. fūit here has a long ū, as sometimes...

(poetry) Metrical foot Metron (poetry) Brevis in longo Anceps Biceps (prosody) Resolution (meter) Brevis brevians Porson's Law Arsis and thesis Catalexis...

follows: x x – u u – u – Here "x" indicates an anceps, "–" a longum, and "u" a brevis. "x x" is known as the Aeolic base, which can be a spondeus "– –", a trochee...

long syllables (except possibly at 1.15.36). The last syllable can have brevis in longo. Asclepiads were used in Latin by Horace in thirty-four of his...

various single-short sequences (e.g. u – , u – u – , and, by the principle of brevis in longo, u – u – – , u – – , – ), with various additional allowances to...

(poetry) Metrical foot Metron (poetry) Brevis in longo Anceps Biceps (prosody) Resolution (meter) Brevis brevians Porson's Law Arsis and thesis Catalexis...

follows: uu uu u | uu u – – || uu uu u | uu u × "x" represents an anceps or brevis in longo a "u" represents a short syllable a "—" represents a long syllable...

(poetry) Metrical foot Metron (poetry) Brevis in longo Anceps Biceps (prosody) Resolution (meter) Brevis brevians Porson's Law Arsis and thesis Catalexis...

is, if the relevant hypothesis is accepted, generally considered long ("brevis in longo"), as in the opening line of Euripides' play The Bacchae: ἥκω Διὸς...

adest is shortened to two short syllables (u u) by a process known as brevis brevians, commonly found in early Latin comedies: adĕst adest fax / obvolūta...

is made catalectic, the final metron changes from x – ᴗ – to ᴗ – x (with brevis in longo at the end). For example, the iambic tetrameter catalectic is as...

The final syllable of each line in the above fragment counts as short and brevis in longo is not observed. Horace composed some poems in the Alcmanian strophe...

(poetry) Metrical foot Metron (poetry) Brevis in longo Anceps Biceps (prosody) Resolution (meter) Brevis brevians Porson's Law Arsis and thesis Catalexis...

(poetry) Metrical foot Metron (poetry) Brevis in longo Anceps Biceps (prosody) Resolution (meter) Brevis brevians Porson's Law Arsis and thesis Catalexis...