CII ORT AMBIC AND IONIC IZITYTITM S. Many verses once called cboriambic are now regarded ac logacedie; genuine choriambics are exceedingly rare, there being not over six cases in Latin.
1.4v &Lc'a rapcia I OIL cro0Os of wvoWras ?oph. 0. T. 4S4. ut neque quid me faciam nee quid again > A certum sit.
Ter. Add. 611.
The close of the second example is apparently an iambic dipody catalectic.
Ionic rhythms appear chiefly in tripodies and tetrapodies.
lrfrepaKcv I ph, O 7rcpa1 I rro\Ls p4craeioc arparos cis al rtropov yet nova xthpav Esch. Pcrs. 65-66.
2 A molles, vete res Delia ci mann re jcisi. Petrol'. 23. The ionic a minnre tetrameter entalretir or Gat/iambic verse admits of the greatest variety of resolutions and substitutions, which can only be seen by a study of Catullus, 63. DACTYLO-EPITRITIC RHYTHMS. About one-half the extant poems of Pindar are written in the dae tylo-opitritic measure, which consists of dac tyls. spondees, prolonged syllables and trites. The epitrite is a dipody of the form _ which may also be catalectic, A. An unaccented syllable at the beginning of the verse (anacrusis ) is also permitted.
-2- 11 .2 Tuvaapi Luis TE cbt XChSfi 0.6th Ka\ Xin-Xorat or 'EXI vg Oth j pap AKpci yavra ye pa mycrIxop.aL. find. HI. 2, 1.2.
D.?CTYLo-TROCIIATc 1HIYTli51N. These verses consist. of Iwo separate cola, one dactylic, the other trochaic. The following combinations are distinguished : (I) the fp-011cl. Arehilnehinn, con sisting of a dactylic tetrameter acatalectic, and a trochaic tripody.
!aciTs hi I enis II ,gra I to vice veris et Fa von; Hor. C. I, 4, 1.
(2) The iombrlegus, a trochaic dimeter Nita lectic with anacrusis followed by a dactylic tri poly catalectic. Yo resolutions are allowed in the first colon, or substitutions in the second.
I > A to vino I Torqua to mo ye II consule -- A pressa me 0 Hor. Ep. 13, 6.
(3) The elegiambus, which is the same as the iambelegus with the cola reversed.
= = A > I scribere versicu los 11 a j more percus sum gra vi nor. Ep. 11, 2.
Consult: Rossbach and Westphal, iletrik der griechischen Dramatiker and Lyriker ed., Leipzig, 1886) : Midler, De Re Metrica ( ib., 1861) ; Schmidt, Die Kunst formcn der grieeh ischen. Poesie (ib., 1S68-69) ; Christ, Mctrik der Gritchen and Romer (2d ed., ib., 1879) ; Gle ditsch. Metrik der Grieehen and Romer, in Von Mfiller's Handbuch. (3d ed., Munich, 1901).