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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
inscriptions (the verses on the tombs of the Scipios: cf. Bucheler, Anthologia Latina
accent
See Keller, Der saturnische Vers (Prague, 1883 and , 886) ; Thurney sen, Der Saturnier ( Halle
Havet , De saturnio Latinorum verso (Paris, 188o) ; Miller, Der saturnische Vers and seine Denkmoler (1885); Leo, Der saturnische Vers (1905); Du Bois, Stress Accent
York
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