Eureka
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- ↑ Sic; de Graeco εὕρηκα, Archimedis exclamatione.
Bibliographia
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.