quadrisyllable

= Note the quadrisyllable ending, and compare _EP_ II ix

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

= For the quadrisyllable ending to the pentameter, see at ii

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Of the twenty-one quadrisyllable verse-endings in the _Ex Ponto_, six involve proper nouns: II ii 76 _Dalmatiae_, ix 42 _Alcinoi_, the present passage, IV iii 54 _Anticyra_, viii 62 _Oechalia_, and ix 80

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Ovid admitted quadrisyllable endings more freely if they were proper names.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

= For Ovid's use of quadrisyllable endings for pentameters, see at ii 10 _Alcinoo_ (p 164).

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Propertius 'similar practice: 42 of the 166 quadrisyllable pentameter endings in Propertius are proper names (Platnauer 17).

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

No! and to every other commentator who has wantonly tampered with the text, or obscured it with his inky cloud of paraphrase, we feel inclined to apply the quadrisyllable name of the brother of Agis, king of Sparta.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

Pope making, as he does, ‘satellites’ a quadrisyllable in the line

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

Gothic abbey, that we halted a little, before we could satisfy ourselves that the niches, windows, etc., were all natural rock. "] [405] [Byron's quadrisyllable was, probably, a poetic licence.

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

/Must be pronounced as a quadrisyllable.] [Page 31]

The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar William Shakespeare 1590