senarius
noun
a Latin verse of six feet, especially an iambic trimeter.
senarii
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pluralof senarius.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The fables are all in ‘impure’ iambic senarii, like those of Terence and Publius Syrus.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
They are written in iambic senarii, in the fluent and studiously simple Latin of an earlier period, not without occasional vulgarisms, but with a total absence of the turgid rhetoric which was coming into fashion.
From Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail
More than half of the verses are iambic senarii, the next commonest being troch. septen. and iamb. octon.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
Iambic senarii were spoken; other metres were sung; but the scenes in septenarii stood midway between the dialogue and the canticum.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
Only about a fourth of Plautus’ verses are in iambic senarii, while in Terence, who followed Menander in this respect, about half of the verses are in this form.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
