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On the other, the Satires and Epistles, loose, talky poems written, like the Ars, in dactylic hexameter.
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Gregory Hays, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
More specifically, a grammatically- and rhythmically-correct line of dactylic hexameter, the kind used by Virgil and Ovid.
—Leah Henrickson, Slate Magazine, 29 Aug. 2017
Sarah Ruden took upon herself the Herculean task of translating Virgil line-by-line, in iambic pentameter, the normative rhythm of English verse, as dactylic hexameter is of ancient epic.
—Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
With one, epic style — stage behavior was often tender, intimate — was established primarily by musical meter, as grand, propulsive and firm as the hexameters of Homer.
—Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2016
Gregory Hays, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
More specifically, a grammatically- and rhythmically-correct line of dactylic hexameter, the kind used by Virgil and Ovid.
—Leah Henrickson, Slate Magazine, 29 Aug. 2017
Sarah Ruden took upon herself the Herculean task of translating Virgil line-by-line, in iambic pentameter, the normative rhythm of English verse, as dactylic hexameter is of ancient epic.
—Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
With one, epic style — stage behavior was often tender, intimate — was established primarily by musical meter, as grand, propulsive and firm as the hexameters of Homer.
—Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2016
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hexameter
noun
hex·am·e·ter
hek-ˈsam-ət-ər 
: a line of verse consisting of six metrical feet
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