Eureka

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Eureka[1] fuit machina hexametris Latinis componendis, ab Ioanne Clark (1785—1853) e Bruga Walteri, sodali amicorum, constructa. Anno 1830 Clark machinam incepit et anno 1845 in medium exposuit.

Eureka versus unius schematis metricae et grammaticae componebat:

1 2 3 4 5 6
dactylus trochaeus iambus molossus dactylus trochaeus
adiectivum n./acc. pl. neutrius nomen, n./acc. pl. neutrius adverbium (vel parenthesis) verbum, 3 pl. ind. pr. act. nomen, n./acc. pl. neutrius adiectivum n./acc. pl. neutrius
Martia castra foris praenarrant proelia multa
pessima regna domi producunt vulnera mira
turpia templa fere promittunt iurgia densa

Plus quam 26 000 000 versus huiusmodi componere potest.

Notae[recensere | fontem recensere]

  1. Sic; de Graeco εὕρηκα, Archimedis exclamatione.

Bibliographia[recensere | fontem recensere]

  • D.W. Blandford, "The Eureka" Greece and Rome 10, 1963, 71-78
  • W. Pinkerton, "Machine Hexameters" Notes and Queries Series 2, No. 3, 1856, 57-9
  • E. Bensly, "Latin Hexameters by Machinery: John Peter" Notes and Queries Series 3, No. 11, 1911, 249-251
  • C. Stray, Classics Transformed Oxford 1998, xi and 70
  • J.D. Hall, "Popular Prosody: Spectacle and the Politics of Victorian Versification" Nineteenth-Century Literature 62, 2007, 222-249.
  • Idem, Nineteenth-Century Verse and Technology: Machines of Meter, 2017.

Nexus interni[recensere | fontem recensere]