AND BYZANTINE GREEK. 63 



The reader will observe here that the accentual rhythm of the first line in each 

 troparion is trochaic ; that is, the reverse of the quantitative (§ 35). 



RHYME. 



§44. 



Rhyme is recognized by the ancient poets, although they never seem to go after it. 

 They only use it vphen it comes to them. Thus, 



EyvtoKa yap Br] ^cbto? ■^-rraTijiJievri, SoPH, Aj. 765 



Kat rrj<; TraXata? ■^apiro'; e/c^efiXTj/j^evr). 



Kal Ta<; TrXevpa'; BapBcLTTTOvaiv, Arist. Nub. 711 



Kai, r7]v '>frvy(rjv eKTrivovcnv, 



Kat TOW op^ei'} e^eXKOvaiv, 



Kal Tov irpaKTOv SiopvTTOvcrcv, 



Upara /j,ev efet? j(^poiav wjf^pdv. Ibid. 1016 



f2/j,ov<; iMKpov;, a-TrjOo^ XeiTTOv, 

 TXwTTav ixeyaXrjV, irvyrfv fiiKpav 

 KooKrjv jieyaXrjv, ■\Jrr]<f)(,a-/j,a fiUKpov. 

 Tow evpvTrpwKTOv;- rovrovl Ibid. 1099 

 Tovv oiB eyco, Kaxeivovi 



Km top KOflTjTrjV TOVTOVl. 



In the following dactylic verses, the rhyme, or rather assonance, comes at the end of 

 the fourth foot. 



M7]piovr)<; Be ^e'peKXov evrjparo, TeKTovo<; vlov II. 5, 59 

 ApfioviBea, b? ')(ep(Ti,v eir icnaro BalBaXa Trdvra 

 Tevxetv e^o^a yap fiip e(f)iXaTo IlaXKa'; ' AOi^vrj. 

 '' O'i Kac AXe^avBpm TeKrrjvaTo vrja<: €icra<;. 

 Xalpe, ^elve, Trap dfifii, ^iXTJcreai- avrdp e-n-ena Od. 1, 123 

 • Aeiirvov iracrcraiMevo? fivdrjaeai, oTTeo ere yp^. 



Gorgias introduced rhyme into prose. ^^^ Isocrates also seems to have overestimated 

 the value of this kind of ornament. 



Rhyme began to be employed systematically m long poems about the latter part of 



*^' DiOD. 12, 53 IIpaTos yap exp^a-aro tois rrjg Xe^eas (TXIpaTKruois Trepirr ore pois Kai rj) (piXorexvia 8ia0e'poD(r(i/ 

 diiTidirois Kal taoKoKois Kal napiaois Kal 6 p,o tor eXtirois, Kai tutiv irtpots toioutois. 



