#hexameter

Itt fekszünk, vándor, vidd hírül a spártaiaknak: Megcselekedtük, amit megkövetelt a haza.

A kettes busszal jártam a hegyről suliba, aztán melózni. A Márvány utcában, mielőtt átmegy az Alkotáson, az Intranszmas előtt, a sarkon az Alkotás bisztró volt, aztán talán Márvány bisztrónak is hítták, 4 forint 20 fillér volt egy sör, egy ideig Bingó-terem is volt, szóval pont a megállóban volt egy kis boltocska, vagy műhely.

Megállt a busz (Ikarus 260 talán), és minden reggel örömmel olvastam a gyönyörű hexametert, ami aztán zenélt a fejemben egész nap: (a névben már nem vagyok biztos, de nem is az a lényeg)

⸸ Sawmill Construction Set by Hexameter [customsims3] ⸸ Resurrected Link ⸸

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Old fashioned Sawmill in Riverview ========================================== Included: 10 Objects to build an old fashioned sawmill After I started to make a millwheel for my game in February 2010 I thought I needed other objects, too. Thus I ended with 10 new objects which you can use to build a sawmill of former times. That's why I called the set Sawmill Construction Set (SCS). Here you can get package files of them in order to build lots of your own. See the picture. All objects are cloned from base game objects only. Some of the objects are intended to fit one to the other in a special way, but of course you also can use each object without the others. It depends on what you want to do. For better understanding (at least I hope so) I wrote a small advice you can download. I don't want to call it a tutorial. For other information see the pictures within the text. The most interesting object is the millwheel. It spins slowly (I hope it will) and can be used for every other type of water mill. Enjoy decorating your buildings with these objects if you like them! ------------ The lot itself was built with all EPs installed, without using any other content than EA-objects and those objects Riverview came with. If you don't like to build a lot use this one. But: It also contains the ten objects I made by myself, all cloned of base game objects only, including an animated millwheel. I called the collection of objects Sawmill Construction Set because I think it contains all you need for an old fashioned sawmill. The lot is set up as commission stocks with a lot size of 40x50. If you are interested in the objects, please read the text files I wrote, so I don't have to repeat all here and nobody is bored from the beginning. Enjoy the objects if you like them and build lots of your own! (Base game users can get the set as package files hexameter ------------------------- Credits: TSR for Workshop Peter&Inge Jones for s3oc and s3pe Wes Howe for his MilkShape plugins Regina for her Build World, that was very helpful to test my objects, and of course for testing and feedback.

“stranger, now come hither, and hear the Danaans’ spoken word”

I've never read this poem before! I'd be happy to, and I love its meter!

Scansion:

– ◡ ◡ / – ◡ ◡ / – ◡ / – ◡ ◡ / – ◡ ◡ / – x Where now the / horse and the / rider? / Where is the / horn that was / blowing? – ◡ ◡ / – ◡ ◡ / – – / ◡ ◡ – – – ◡ Where is the / helm and the / hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? – ◡ ◡ / – ◡ ◡ / – – / ◡ ◡ – – – ◡ Where is the / hand on the harpstring, / and the red fire glowing? – ◡ ◡ / – ◡ ◡ / – – / ◡ ◡ – – – ◡ Where is the / spring and the / harvest / and the tall corn growing? ◡ ◡ – ◡ / – ◡ ◡ / – ◡ / ◡ ◡ / – ◡ ◡ / – x They have passed like / rain on the / mountain, / like a / wind in the / meadow; ◡ – ◡ ◡ / – ◡ ◡ / – ◡ / – ◡ / – ◡ ◡ / – x The days have gone / down in the / West be/hind the / hills into / shadow. ◡ ◡ – ◡ ◡ – / ◡ ◡ – – – ◡ Who shall gather the smoke / of the dead wood burning, ◡ ◡ – ◡ – ◡ – / ◡ ◡ – ◡ – ◡ Or behold the flowing years / from the Sea returning?

Metrical form:

Line 1 is dactylic hexameter in the classical style (like Greek and Roman epic poetry), where some of the dactyls can be replaced with spondees and where the final foot must be a spondee.

Lines 2-4 are metrically identical to each other; they each begin with dactyl + dactyl + spondee (like line 1) and then end with ◡ ◡ – – – ◡. This line-end could almost be shoehorned into the end of a hexameter, but it really feels like 2 feet, not 3, and the recurrence of the same meter for 3 lines solidifies the sense that it's its own pattern.

Lines 5-6 are roughly hexametrical again. Line 6 has an extra unstressed syllable at the beginning; line 5 is much looser, with two unstressed syllables at the beginning and what feels like a pyrrhic foot (2 unstressed syllables instead of having a stressed syllable) in like a.

Lines 7-8 have the same second half of the line as lines 2-4 did. The first halves have a different structure, notably with anapests and iambs (feet that start with unstressed syllables) in comparison to the dactylic beginning (with feet that started with stressed syllables).

Rhyme scheme: AAAABBCC

Not that I want to get involved in the “Vergil Bee Discourse,” but it did get me thinking…why merely associate Vergil with bees when you could associate Queen Dido with bees, as her city (Carthage) is the one he describes with the allegory of a hive…especially since she is a queen, just like matriarch of a beehive.

Either way, I couldn’t resist and had to draw a monumental Dido tending to her hive city.

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Iura magistratusque legunt sanctumque senatum;

hic portus alii effodiunt; hic alta theatris

fundamenta locant alii, immanisque columnas

rupibus excidunt, scaenis decora alta futuris.

Qualis apes aestate nova per florea rura

exercet sub sole labor, cum gentis adultos

educunt fetus, aut cum liquentia mella

stipant et dulci distendunt nectare cellas,

aut onera accipiunt venientum, aut agmine facto

ignavom fucos pecus a praesepibus arcent:

fervet opus, redolentque thymo fragrantia mella.

“O fortunati, quorum iam moenia surgunt!”

Aeneas ait, et fastigia suspicit urbis.

Infert se saeptus nebula, mirabile dictu,

per medios, miscetque viris, neque cernitur ulli.

Lucus in urbe fuit media, laetissimus umbra,

quo primum iactati undis et turbine Poeni

effodere loco signum, quod regia Iuno

monstrarat, caput acris equi; sic nam fore bello

egregiam et facilem victu per saecula gentem.

Hic templum Iunoni ingens Sidonia Dido

condebat, donis opulentum et numine divae,

aerea cui gradibus surgebant limina, nexaeque

aere trabes, foribus cardo stridebat aenis.

Hoc primum in luco nova res oblata timorem

leniit, hic primum Aeneas sperare salutem

ausus, et adflictis melius confidere rebus.

— P. Virgilius Maro “Aeneid” Lib. I, 426–452

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Laws, offices, a sacred senate formed.

A port was being dug, the high foundations

Of a theater laid, great columns carved from cliffs

To ornament the stage that would be built there:

Like bees in spring across the blossoming land,

Busy beneath the sun, leading their offspring,

Full grown now, from the hive, or loading cells

Until they swell with honey and sweet nectar,

Or taking shipments in, or lining up

To guard the fodder from the lazy drones;

The teeming work breathes thyme and fragrant honey

“What luck they have—their walls grow high already!”

Aeneas cried, his eyes on those great roofs.

Still covered by the cloud—a miracle—

He went in through the crowds, and no one saw him.

Deep in the city is the verdant shade

Where the Phoenicians, tired from stony waves,

Dug up the sign that Juno said would be there:

A horses’s head, foretelling martial glory

And easy livelihood through future ages.

Dido was building Juno a vast shrine here

Filled with rich offerings and holy power.

The stairs soared to a threshold made of bronze;

Bronze joined the beams; the doors had shrill bronze henges.

Here a strange sight relieved Aeneas’ fear

For the first time, and lured him into hope

Of better things to follow all his torments.