hephthemimeres

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

hephthēmĭmĕres, is, f., = ἑφθημιμερής (sc. τομή), in hexameter or Iambic verse,

the caesura which occurs after the first half of the fourth foot , Lat. semiseptenaria (insectio), Diom. 497, 9 and 23; Serv. de Cent. Metr. 1817 P.