About Hermann’s bridge: from Theocritus to Virgilius

Authors

  • Marco Borea Universität Freiburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23808/rel.v13i0.87734

Keywords:

Hermann’s bridge; trochaic word-end; word-end.

Abstract

The majority of Greek and Latin poets avoids word-end after the fourth trochee of the hexameter. The stylistic use of the trochaic division at Hermann’s bridge like in Virgil’s Bucolics seems to go back to his Greek model Theocritus.

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Published

2013-12-13

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Borea, M. (2013) “About Hermann’s bridge: from Theocritus to Virgilius”, Revista de Estudios Latinos, 13, pp. 71–82. doi: 10.23808/rel.v13i0.87734.

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Vol. 13 (2013)

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