GRAGG. — THE GREEK EPIGRAM BEFORE 300 B. C. 39 



Spondaic lines are 129. 1, 171. 3 (MS.), 210. 3 (MS.), 275. 1, 301. 1 

 (MS.). 



Hiatus between the cola of the pentameter occurs in 103. 2 (]\IS.), 

 127.2 (Allen, p. 63, cites but one example, Allen XXVI (S IV)). 



Sylkiba anceps ends the first colon of the pentameter in 48. 2, 67. 4 

 (MS.), 127. 2, 190. 2 (MS.) (Allen, p. 63, cites but one example, K 24 

 = 233 b. 2). 



A monosyllable ends the pentameter in 67.4 (MS.), 160 a. 2 (MS.), 

 267. 2, 270. 2 (Allen, p. 65, cites but one example, K 519). 



I append also a table showing the structure of the distich. 



CM 

 o 

 Z 



Insc. Ms. 



10 20= 70 



18 96 = 207 

 56 33 = 181 



If we reduce the above figures to per cents, we get the following 

 table : 



Per cent of Distichs where there is a Pause 

 between Hexameter and Pentameter. 



It is evident that the tendency to separate the verses is much greater 

 in the inscriptions than in the poems preserved in MSS. only. This 

 tendency, however, grows steadily less in the case of inscriptions, while 

 it increases slightly in the case of the epigrams preserved only in MSS. 



The following table shows the structure of epigrams of two distichs : 



Pause in Pau.se in Pause in Pause after 



Sense v. 2, not v. .3, not v. 3, not No 



between between between between Pause. 



Distichs. Distichs. Distichs. Distichs. 



Insc. Ms. Insc. Ms. Insc. Ms. Insc. Ms. Insc. Ms. 



12 1 = 10 



Seventh and ^ 



sixth centuries 



Fifth century 318 1 23 11 518== 52 



Fourth century 11 13 4 2 2 1 11 7 = 51 



The evidence here is somewhat scanty, but it is surprising that there 



