Associations to the word «Brevis»

Wiktionary

BREVIS IN LONGO, noun. (poetry) (Greek and Latin meter) The situation where a short syllable at the end of a line can be counted as long.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne