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dochmius

dochmius, the dochmius (a foot in verse)

dochmĭus, ii, m., = δόχμιος (sc. πούς),
  • the dochmiac foot in poetry, whose fundamental scheme is ⏑ – – ⏑ –, of which, however, about thirty modifications are described, Cic. Or. 64 fin.; Quint. 9, 4, 79 al.

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