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METRE (See also:Lat. Saturnius, i.e. which relates to See also:Saturn) , the name given by the See also:Romans to the crude and irregular See also:measures of the See also:oldest Latin folk-songs. The scansion is generally of the following type: ,J u! u-. with v'... with which See also:Macaulay compares the nursery See also:rhyme, " The See also:Queen was in her parlour, eating See also:bread and See also:honey." There was, however, considerable See also:licence in the scansion, and we can gather only that the See also:verse was generally of this type, and had a See also:light and vivacious See also:movement. It occurs in a few See also:inscriptions (the verses on the tombs of the Scipios: cf. See also:Bucheler, Anthologia See also:Latina, 1895) in fragments, Livius Andronicus and the Bellum Punicum of See also:Naevius. Subsequently it was ousted by See also:Greek metres. The question as to whether it depended upon See also:accent or upon quantity has been much discussed. See See also:Keller, Der saturnische Vers (See also:Prague, 1883 and , 886) ; Thurney sen, Der Saturnier (See also:Halle, 1885) ; See also:Havet, De saturnio Latinorum verso (See also:Paris, 188o) ; See also:Miller, Der saturnische Vers and See also:seine Denkmoler (1885); See also:Leo, Der saturnische Vers (1905); Du Bois, Stress Accent in See also:Roman See also:Poetry (New See also:York, 1906) ; also See also:Mommsen, Hist. of See also:Rome, i. See also:chap. xv.

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