metre Copy link Outline 1. metrum2. nŭmĕrus (measure, rhythm) • metre: 1. metrum: Quint. 9, 4, 45 and 46 (in the former case, written as a Gk. word): composed in the m. of Tibullus (elegiac verse), compositus metro Tibulli, Mart. 4, 6: M. L. 2. nŭmĕrus (measure, rhythm): to write in m., numeris nectere verba, Ov. Pont. 4, 2, 30: in grave (heroic) m., gravi n., id. Am. 1, 1, 1.