Golden line
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. == Definition == The golden line is variously defined, but most uses of the term conform to the oldest known definition from Burles' Latin grammar of 1652: "If the Verse does consist of two Adjectives, two Substantives and a Verb only, the first Adjective agreeing with the first Substantive, the second with the second, and the Verb placed in the midst, it is called a Golden Verse: as, Lurida terribiles miscent aconita novercae.