A.consisting of three μέτρα; i. e. in iambics, trochaics, and anapaestics, of three συζυγίαι (of two feet each); but in dactylics, etc., of three single feet: hence the iambic verse of six feet is called by the Greeks ἴαμβος τρίμετρος, Hdt.1.12; so τόνος τ. trimeter verse, ib.174; “ἔπη τ.” Pl.Lg.810e; τρίμετρον, τό, Ar.Nu.642, Arist.Po.1447b11 (pl.).
τρίμετρος [ι^], ον, of verses,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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