senarius

se·nar·i·us

 (sə-nâr′ē-əs)
n. pl. se·nar·i·i (-ē-ī′, -ē-ē′)
A Latin verse consisting of six usually iambic feet.

[Latin sēnārius, consisting of six each, senarius; see senary.]
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senarius

(sɪˈnɛərɪəs)
n
a verse of Classical poetry consisting of six iambic feet
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Written in Plautus's own iambic senarius metre, these six Latin lines summarize the dramatic action while spelling out the play's title, Rudens, in a verse-initial acrostic.
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Smart's eight-beat line makes a good equivalent to Phaedrus' iambic senarius; he was less judicious in using it to render Horace's hexameter poems: Horace is not like Samuel Butler.
the intact diatom Actinoptychus senarius, which is small enough to enter the gill principal filament, is directed to the dorsal tract, whereas clean empty frustules (no organic coating) of the same diatom are transferred to the ventral tract (Beninger et al., 2008).