τετράμετρος
Τὸ νικᾶν αὐτὸν αὑτὸν πασῶν νικῶν πρώτη τε καὶ ἀρίστη. Τὸ δὲ ἡττᾶσθαι αὐτὸν ὑφ' ἑαυτοῦ πάντων αἴσχιστόν τε ἅμα καὶ κάκιστον. → Τo conquer yourself is the first and best victory of all, while to be conquered by yourself is of all the most shameful as well as evil
English (LSJ)
ον,
A consisting of four metres, i.e., in iambic and trochaic verse, consisting of four double feet or syzygies: τὸ τετράμετρον is generally the trochaic tetrameter, Ar.Nu.642,645, X.Smp.6.3, Arist.Rh.1404a31, 1409a1, Po.1459b37: also the anapaestic tetrameter, called τὸ Ἀριστοφάνειον (as in Nu.957 sq.), D.H. Comp.25; cf. τρίμετρος. 2 γωνίαι τ. square, i.e. right, angles, Callix.2 (dub. l.).
German (Pape)
[Seite 1098] vier Maaße haltend; γωνίαι, Ath. V, 199 c, scheint »viereckig« zu bedeuten; – in der Metrik = aus vier Maaßen bestehend, ein trochäischer, jambischer u. anapästischer Rhythmus aus vier Dipodien bestehend, in dactylischen u. andern Versen aus vier einfachen Versfüßen bestehend, Gramm.; – τὸ τετράμετρον, Ar. Nubb. 632; Xen. Conv. 6, 3.
