† hexămĕter (hexămetrus, Ter. Maur. p. 2430 P.), tri, m., = ἑξάμετρος (of six measures), with or without versus, a verse consisting of six feet, a hexameter: versus, Lucil. ap. Porphyr. Hor. S. 1, 5, 87; so, metrum, Isid. 1, 38, 6: Antipater ille Sidonius solitus est versus hexametros aliosque variis modis atque numeris fundere ex tempore, Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 194: hexametrorum instar versuum, id. Or. 66, 222: liber scriptus ab eo hexametris versibus, Suet. Aug. 85: in longis versibus qui hexametri dicuntur, Gell. 18, 15, 1 (cf. Enn. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 27, 68): initium hexametri, Quint. 9, 4, 78; cf. § 74: finis hexametri, id. 9, 4, 75; Ter. Maur. p. 2441: iambicus, whose sixth foot is an iambus, Diom. p. 516 P.