Unit prefix or if letters such as "T", which are already in use as SI units or prefixes, will again be skipped. Several personal proposals have been made for extending the series of prefixes, with ascending terms such as "xenna, weka, vendeka" (from Greek "ennea" (9), "deka" (10), "endeka" (11)) and descending terms such as "xono", "weco", "vundo" (from Latin "novem/nona" (9), "dec" (10), "undec" (11). Using Greek for ascending and Latin for descending would be consistent with established prefixes such as "deca, hecto, kilo" vs "deci, centi, milli"). Although some of these are repeated on the internet, none are in actual
Latin poetry Latin poetry The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are considered the earliest surviving examples of Latin literature and are estimated to have been composed around 205-184 BC. The start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a Greek slave, Livius Andronicus, at Rome in 240 BC. Livius translated Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, using meters that were basically those of Greek drama, modified to the needs of Latin. His successors Plautus and Terence further refined the borrowings