And so you will hear Homeric characters referred to by epithets, Homer, part of the technique of passing on oral poetry is by having epithets attached to the rulers to help with the meter.

你会发现有一些别称用来称呼荷马时代的人,荷马时代,口口传诵诗歌的技巧之一,就是在统治者名字后面加上别称,使之更押韵

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We were talking about the subdivision of that pulse, the organizing of that pulse into meters, and that we had this capacity to indicate what the meter was by these numbers: two-four, and three-four for duple and triple meter.

我们还讲到律动的进一步划分,将律动组织成拍子,与此同时我们能够用一些数字,来表示不同的拍子,比如,用二四拍和三四拍表示二拍子和三拍子

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