LEONINE VERSES

Latin verses according to the rules of ancient prosody, but rhymed. The name is said to be derived from one of the popes Leo, or, more probably, from a monk called Leon in us. The end rhymes to the middle, i. e. to the two last syllables before the caesura, in hexameters; in pentameters, the two divisions are rhymed. The following distich may serve as an example: — Daemon langue bat, nionachus tunc e e To let at; Ast ubi convaluit, mausit ut jinte fuit. LEPADITES, LepadUa. (Gr. Xsjraf, a shell-fish.) Goose barnacles; an order of Cirripeds, comprehending those which have a long flexible contractile stem, fixed by its base to some solid body, and supporting at its extremity the principal parts of the animal, inclosed by a multi valve shell, or coriaceous case. [s. 667]