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Definition of Scansions
1. scansion [n] - See also: scansion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scansions
Literary usage of Scansions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Classical Quarterly by Classical Association (Great Britain) (1908)
"... or conjoined phrase, beginning with a vowel : every possible device is employed
to obtain true scansions of the type /ueA«T<raa>i' ..."
2. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1908)
"Mr. Fairclough says that I accept certain scansions "which are now ... But as a
matter of fact these scansions have not been "generally discarded". ..."
3. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1869)
"The shortening of the first syllable of exercitus, which Professor Ramsay gets
rid of by unnatural scansions, might be supported by the shortening of the ..."
4. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"The same thing happened apparently to a final long vowel or diphthong when the
next word began with a vowel or h, so that scansions like Plautus, Aul. ..."
5. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"232 K.), cannot explain Virgilian scansions like canto, except on the theory that
they are imitations of the Greek -<o of -now, Sec. ..."
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