Chapters on Greek metric,

p. 161

And in the ordinary iambic trimeter and trochaic tetrameter there was in fact a marked quantitative difference of that sort, in that the alternate foot might be irrational, and was irrational in a large fraction of the cases.

p. 209

The situation was essentially the same in the trochaic tetrameter, and in other trochaic and iambic meters. But here, in the dipodies which externally resemble those of the tragic trimeter and the trochaic tetrameter, the spondee ordi- narily ends the kolon, and often the line and periodos.

p. 235

Again, no meter has a more plainly marked rhythm, universally agreed upon, than the trochaic tetrameter. But in this trochaic rhythm dactyls were admitted.

p. 237

-ul-ul-ul-x The latter is cited from a trochaic tetrameter of Epichar- mos. Both these forms are divided by the old metrici in the manner indicated; one cannot doubt that in these cases that division indicates correctly the rhythm.

p. 238

For convenience of comparison with the trochaic tetrameter we may write the scheme, simply longs and shorts, ignoring for the moment the question of prolongation, thus: