I.a verse consisting of six feet, a hexameter: versus, Lucil. ap. Porphyr. Hor. S. 1, 5, 87; so, “metrum,” Isid. 1, 38, 6: “Antipater ille Sidonius solitus est versus hexametros aliosque variis modis atque numeris fundere ex tempore,” Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 194: “hexametrorum instar versuum,” id. Or. 66, 222: “liber scriptus ab eo hexametris versibus,” Suet. Aug. 85: “in longis versibus qui hexametri dicuntur,” Gell. 18, 15, 1 (cf. Enn. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 27, 68): “initium hexametri,” Quint. 9, 4, 78; cf. “§ 74: finis hexametri,” id. 9, 4, 75; Ter. Maur. p. 2441: “iambicus,” whose sixth foot is an iambus, Diom. p. 516 P.
hexămĕter (hexămetrus , Ter. Maur. p. 2430 P.), tri, m., = ἑξάμετρος (of six measures), with or without versus,