The old-Latin and old-Irish monuments of verse,

p. 71

It is the final stage of the Sa- turnian proper, just before medial catalexis is overcome and the rhythm becomes one with the trochaic tetrameter; cf. the Latin monument : Cum victor Lemno classem :: Doricam appulisset. cel. 8.

p. 85

These iambic and trochaic tetrame- ters in both Latin and Old-Irish technique are nothing else but