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Epistola ad Acircium
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<p>The <i>Epistola ad Acircium, sive Liber de septenario, et de metris, aenigmatibus ac pedum regulis</i> ('letter to Acircius, or the book on sevens, and on metres, riddles, and the regulation of <a href="/facts/Poetic_feet/bJmBpspy">poetic feet</a>') is a Latin treatise by the West-Saxon scholar <a href="/facts/Aldhelm/xjAhjENL">Aldhelm</a> (d. 709). It is dedicated to one Acircius, understood to be King <a href="/facts/Aldfrith_of_Northumbria/8d4Tnrng">Aldfrith of Northumbria</a> (r. 685-704/5). It was a seminal text in the development of <a href="/facts/Anglo-Saxon_riddles/Nr1h6DQz">riddles as a literary form in medieval England</a>. </p>