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SATURNIAN METRE (Lat. Saturnius, i.e. which relates to Saturn)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 233 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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