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p. 51
.) - -1-- - ὃς τὰ κλείν᾽ αἰνίγματ᾽ ᾔδει καὶ κράτιστος ἦν ἀνήρ 1 -1- -1- - - ^ | (trochaic tetrameter catalectic; Sophocles, Edipus Rex 1525.) are normal in all the Greek and Latin iambic and trochaic verse actually known to us from the seventh century B.C. down to the Augustan age of Latin literature.¹ And to us moderns such lines present themselves as perfectly 1 A few poems of Catullus (4 and 29) and Horace (Epod. 16, Od. ii. 18) are abnormal and artificial in their structure.
p. 66
If these syllables were originally undifferentiated in respect of quantity and accent, the symbol for such an isosyllabic structure will be- 0000000 | Let us further suppose (1) that the number of syllables might be reduced by the substitution of a rest or a pro- |0000 00 00 || 1 That the trochaic tetrameter catalectic was an indigenous Latin metre is strongly held by Prof.
p. 75
. -~-^| 시 (Plautus, Amphitruo 528; trochaic tetrameter catalectic.) -1 ——- ¹ The lines quoted above are not intended to be representative of the average trimeters of early Latin verse, which have far more quantitative structure than is indicated by these quotations, as may be seen by reading any continuous passage of Plautus or Terence in this metre.
p. 77
RHYTHM IN LATIN VERSE 77 I will print them in italics, with an accent on the first syllable, and indicate them by the symbol 1 Cáve sis túam conténdas íram cóntra cum íra Líberi --1---^1 (Naevius, Lycurgus, a tragedy; trochaic tetrameter catalectic.) -|- ·|- - Sénex hic èlleborósust cérte.
p. 82
For example, the third rise of the iambic trimeter and the fifth of the trochaic tetrameter catalectic is normally accented, whether the inner fall of the dipody is impure or not.
p. 85
A continuous progress towards smoothness of structure is very noticeable.¹ The following specimens (some of them post-Augustan) will give some idea of the later popular Latin verse in its rougher form: Gállos Caesar in triúmphum dúxit, ídem in cúriàm: Gálli brácas dèposuérunt, látum clávum súmpsĕrùnt (Suetonius, Life of Julius 60; trochaic tetrameters.) 1 P. Langen in Rheinisches Museum, N.F., xiii., pp. 199–208; L.
p. 89
(Of uncertain date and authorship; trochaic tetrameter catalectic.) The difficulty is, however, no greater than in the syllable-counting dipody of Ambrose quoted above (castus amor); indeed it is less, because the accent, falling on alternate syllables, helps to create an impression of isochronous feet.¹ That syllable-counting is a possible method of grouping syllables in rhythmical feet has been shown above (Chap.
p. 191
1- ^1 - |--| --- ázure |- -| Knéel adóring Hím the Timeless in the fláme that méasures 1 - || - - J - · 1 0 0||~ - |~ Shé beloved for a kíndliness Ráre in fáble or history, (Akbar's Hymn, 5-8; trochaic tetrameter, cata- lectic in lines 1, 2, 4. Note the anaclastic foot, for, in five instances: shadow bis, mónarch, ázure, méasures.
p. 208
The third rise of the iambic trimeter, the fifth of the trochaic tetrameter, and the seventh of the iambic tetrameter catalectic are evidential in a high degree; and in a less degree the rise which precedes these in each of these three metres.