Lapidary style

Lapidary style refers to (printed) texts that imitate the style of inscriptions. They may use punctuation marks to separate words, which has been interpreted as indicating rhythmic halts.[1] In the lapidary style, lines of unequal length are arranged symmetrically to resemble an ancient inscription. The style was popular especially in the literature of the 17th century.[2] It was used more often for poetry than prose. The most typical metres were elegiac distich and hexametre.[3].

References

  1. ↑ Korhonen, Tua (2022). To the Glory That Was Greece: Ideas, Ideals and Practices in Composing Humanist Greek during the Seventeenth Century (Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 143). Helsinki, p. 262. https://doi.org/10.54572/ssc.234
  2. ↑ Kajanto, Iiro (1994). “On Lapidary Style in Epigraphy and Literature in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”, Humanistica Lovaniensia 43, p. 137; 139.
  3. ↑ Kajanto, Iiro (1994). “On Lapidary Style in Epigraphy and Literature in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”, Humanistica Lovaniensia 43, pp. 150–151.
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