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The golden line is a type of Latin dactylic hexameter frequently mentioned in Latin classrooms and in contemporary scholarship about Latin poetry, but which apparently began as a verse-composition exercise in schools in early modern Britain.[1]

  1. ^ K. Mayer, "The schoolboys' revenge: how the golden line entered classical scholarship", Classical Receptions Journal, Volume 12, Issue 2, April 2020, Pages 248–278, https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clz029 For the contrary view that maintains that the golden line was known in antiquity, see Seppo Heikkinen, "From Persius to Wilkinson: The Golden Line Revisited", Arctos : Acta Philologica Fennica 49 (2015), pages 57-77..

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