Many of the 132 surviving verses of the esoteric Saturnian meter come from Livius Andronicus’s translation of a poem by this author, which he opened with the invocation to one of the Camenae. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this possibly blind Greek poet who was widely studied in the Medieval era via the Ilias Latina, an abridged Latin translation of the first of two epic poems detailing the Trojan War.
ANSWER: Homer [or Homeros]
[10m] Saturnian meter was largely supplanted by the most common meter in Latin poetry, a hexameter named for these feet. The name of these feet references their long, short-short structure.
ANSWER: dactyl [accept dactylic hexameter]
[10h] In Latin poetry, dactylic hexameter necessitated one of these features in either the third or fourth foot of each line. These prosodic features, contrasted with a diaeresis, came in strong and weak forms depending on which syllable of the dactyl they followed.
ANSWER: caesurae
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