182 Austin Morris Harmon, 



while the /3 types {sol aestimatur, Tyaneits Apollonius) are rare. Of 

 II /3 the only instance is the one cited, an interior clausula in 

 Book XXI (158. 30) : I /3 is more frequent, with 31 cases in all.^ 

 The reason for their infrequency is not far to seek. The first word 

 in the /? types must be either an oxytone or an accented mono- 

 syllable. But there are very few native oxytones in Latin {adhuc, 

 iliac, etc.) and though the adoption of Greek accentuation in loan- 

 words gave Ammianus a certain number of proper names with the 

 requisite accent (as Tyaneits, Thebai's), even with this addition the 

 number of oxytones at his command was very small. And as for 

 monosyllal)les, those that naturally bear a strong accent are in- 

 frequent (the nouns) and such as are frequent (the auxiliary sum, 

 conjunctions etc.) do not ordinarily bear a strong accent except 

 when their stress is increased by special emphasis or sentence- 

 accent.2 Consequently combinations capable of producing these 

 types would seldom have suggested themselves spontaneously to 

 Ammianus, and we can say that he made use of them when they 

 occurred to him, without either seeking or avoiding them.^ 



In III and IV the only possible two-word types are ;' and 6 ; 

 here again they all occur. But IV ;' is very infrequent. The list 

 shows but one case (the sentence-ending possint obseriiantibiis), and 

 I have noted only 17 more in the whole of Ammianus, all of which 

 are interior clausulae.* The type can only be constructed by using 

 a six-syllabled word with antepenultimate accent, and its infrequency 

 must be ascribed in the main to the rarity of such words. 



In point of rhythm there is a question regarding the ;' types of III 

 and IV that should be raised here, although we cannot settle it. Since 



' Outside of the collections 1 note half a dozen cases of II (i : they are — 

 I. 17. 29 urbs venerabiUs \ 28. 3 7trhs perspicabilis \ 228. 22 est supervacu7i7n \ 

 271. 7 ad id pertinentia ; II. 223. 28 7'ex potentisshinis ; 237. 3 est vohiptabile. 

 They are all interior claiisulae : the type does not occur at all in finals. 



' As in iustum quid sit igno7-dnti II. 224. 23. See p. 206 f. 



' It may be that some of the clausulae wliicli I have classified under 

 Illy J and IV yJ" are really I /i and 11 [3 : i. e. instead oi felicitdtis ut 

 vidcbdtur perhaps we should read lit videbdtnr. But rather than trust the 

 subjective criterion afforded by my own notion of the probable sentence- 

 accent, I have preferred the objective one of listing under III and IV 

 all cases in which the monosyllable is preceded by a word accented on 

 the penult. Thns felicifatis ut videbatur counts as IllyJ', while impendio 

 est formidanda counts as I /i. 



* I. 81. 8 constanti sollicitudine ; 133. 14 inntsari malivolentia \ I. 183 

 10 ; 190. 8 ; 269. 9 ; 273. 18, 24 ; 279. 27 ; 290. 30 ; 304. 19 ; 317. 26 ; II. 

 63. 17: 80. 16; 165. 14; 259. 28; 260. 15; 270. 8. 



