Für hilfreiche Hinweise sowie für die Sprachkorrektur sind wir Walther Ludwig (Hamburg) herzlich dankbar. 1 In seiner Liste der in der Forschungsliteratur behandelten überlieferten lateinischen und deutschen poetischen Grabinschriften mit den Angaben der späteren Veröffentlichungen und Übersetzungen nennt Martin Klöker sechs poetische Inschriften aus der Periode 1549 bis zum Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts. Allerdings sind die Gedichte an Fabian von Tiesenhausen und Gaspard de Coligny nur (aus den Ratsprotokollen bekannte) literarische Epitaphia und fanden sich kaum in Reval oder anderswo in

In 2014, the project CEILE (Corpus Electronicum Inscriptionum Latinarum Estoniae, EKKM 14-364) was launched within the framework of the program “Estonian language and cultural memory”, in order to systematically map and study the Latin inscriptions created before 1918 and stored in Estonian Lutheran and Catholic churches. As of 2018, the database contains more than 300 inscriptions. Although the proportion of verse texts is not high (13 entries), the fact that the material (totalling 175 verses) has survived almost completely, part of them in situ and partly in transcriptions, and contains several lengthier texts, allows us to make certain generalizations about their metrical and prosodic structure. In this paper, we will give an overview of the chronology and sites of inscriptions and describe the metrical, rhythmical and prosodic structure of the verse texts, addressing also the conjectural role of meter and prosody in our work. We will also dwell on the metrical and prosodic correctness of the texts and will take a separate look at the prosodic licences and errors which occur in the verse texts of the corpus.

and Russia. While participants come mainly from classical studies, researchers from a variety of disciplines have also recognised the conference's merit. Over the years, the programme has addressed disciplines such as philosophy, Greek and Latin literature, as well as, for instance, the Greek and Latin education or the influences of ancient mythology in contemporary literature. The delivered papers are authored by both recognised scholars and by MA-and PhD-students presenting their first academic achievements.The subtitle of this year's Colloquium Balticum XIV Tartuense was Pontes ad fontes (Bridges to Sources), aiming to draw attention to methodological questions in researching Classical Antiquity and reception of ancient culture. As expressed in the conference invitation, a wide variety of activities could be considered Pontes (Bridges) to Antiquity: discovery, interpretation, translation, commentaries and teaching of ancient heritage. This subtitle offered an opportunity to include papers on poetry and poetics, methods and possibilities of textual analysis, themes and forms of ancient poetry in contemporary literature, and so on. We will give a short overview of such papers presented during the eight sessions on the colloquium in Tartu.During the first session on 5 November, Anna Strode from the University of Latvia discussed the themes of 17th century occasional poetry in Riga and their relation to the history of Livonia. Due to the domination of Swedish Empire at the time in Livonia, the level of education improved, and in 1631 the Riga Academic Gymnasium was founded and soon scientific texts started to appear. Hand in hand with the growing importance of Latin and Greek language in education, occasional poetry in these languages began to bloom. In order to graduate from the Gymnasium, students had to take part in various disputations (disputationes) held in school as well as in public. Texts of these disputations were printed before the disputations themselves took place; the printed versions included occasional poems congratulating the respondents (that is, students of the Gymnasium, who were the authors of the disputations), which were added to the end of the texts. Strode described how the main

Frontiers in Comparative Metrics III, 29–30 September 2017, Tallinn, Estonia

The works of Sappho and Alcaeus, 7th–6th century BC lyric poets from the island of Lesbos, represent the Aeolic tradition of ancient Greek poetry. In this paper, two metrical structures of this tradition, that both have two quantity-free positions (anceps, brevis in longo), are analysed and compared with regard to the quantitative tendencies of these positions. The first metrical structure, the Sapphic hendecasyllable, was used by both poets; the other, aiolikon, is not attested in Alcaeus’s work. The analysed corpus consists of all the survived lines in these meters. Due to the fragmentary nature of the material, the statistical analysis is presented in two sets to add and include the data of the Sapphic and Alcaic lines about which there is a suspicion that they may be in these meters, and also to differentiate dubious data from the undubious. In addition, the statistical data of the quantitative tendencies of the undubious lines is also expressed with generative models. In general, all the free positions, except the ancipites of Sappho’s aiolikon, display a preference for heavy syllables and the preference is more pronounced in the brevis in longo position, especially when it comes to aiolikon. Comparing the hendecasyllables, Alcaeus tends to have more heavy syllables than Sappho. Aiolikon’s free positions exhibit the biggest quantitative contrast.