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|lshtext=<b>pŏēma</b>: ătis (<br /><b>I</b> gen. plur. poëmatorum, Afran. ap. Non. 493, 9; cf. [[Charis]]. p. 114 P.: poëmatum, Suet. Gram. 23; Spart. Hadr. 14; dat. and abl. plur. [[usually]] poëmatis, Cic. Off. 3, 3, 15; Plaut. As. 1, 3, 22; Auct. Her. 4, 2, 3; [[but]] also poëmatibus, Suet. Tit. 3; App. Mag. 5), n., = [[ποίημα]], a [[composition]] in [[verse]], a [[poem]] (freq. and [[class]].; syn. [[carmen]]): [[pars]] est parva poëma, [[proinde]] ut [[epistola]] quaevis. Illa poësis [[opus]] totum, ut tota [[Ilias]] una Est [[θέσις]], annalesque Enni: [[atque]] [[istoc]] [[opus]] unum Est majus [[multo]] [[quam]] [[quod]] dixi [[ante]] poëma, Lucil. ap. Non. 428, 12 sq.; cf.: poëma est [[λέξις]] [[εὔρυθμος]], id est verba plura [[modice]] in quandam conjecta formam. Itaque [[etiam]] distichon [[epigrammation]] vocant poëma. Poësis est perpetuum [[argumentum]] e rhythmis, ut [[Ilias]] Homeri et Annales Ennii, Varr. ap. Non. 428, 19 sq.—Plur.: poëmata (opp. [[oratio]]), [[poetry]], Cic. Or. 21, 70.—So of [[some]] verses of a [[poem]]: o poëma tenerum et moratum [[atque]] molle! Cic. Div. 1, 31, 66; and of a [[short]] [[poem]], Cat. 50, 16, 1. But this [[distinction]] is not observed [[even]] by [[Ennius]], and poëma [[was]] the [[name]] in the [[class]]. [[period]] for [[every]] [[kind]] of [[poem]]: latos per populos terrasque poëmata nostra clara cluebunt, Enn. ap. Prob. p. 1401 P. (Ann. v. 3 Vahl.): poëma facere, Cic. Ac. 1, 3, 9: poëma ad Caesarem [[quod]] composueram, incidi, id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4, § 11: Graecum condere, id. Att. 1, 16, 15: pangere, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 40; id. A. P. 416: scribere, id. Ep. 2, 1, 117: egregium, Cic. de Or. 1, 50, 217: poëma festivum, concinnum, [[elegans]], id. Pis. 29, 70: si poëma loquens [[pictura]] est, [[pictura]] tacitum poëma debet esse, Auct. Her. 4, 28, 39: ridenda poëmata [[malo]], [[quam]] te, Juv. 10, 124.
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