dochmius

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ἐλαχίστου ἐδέησε διαφθεῖραι → narrowly missed destroying

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

dochmĭus: ii, m., = δόχμιος> (sc. πούς>),
I the dochmiac foot in poetry, whose fundamental scheme is ˘ [macracute] [macracute] ˘ [macracute], of which, however, about thirty modifications are described, Cic. Or. 64 fin.; Quint. 9, 4, 79 al.