64 A GLOSSARY OF LATER 



the fifteenth century. The earliest production in rhyme is the Description of the Plague 

 of Rhodes [to davariKov rrj^ PoSov), published in the year 1498, by Emmanuel 

 Georgilas, a native of that place. In modern Greek, rhyme, although not an indis- 

 pensable element of rhythm, is generally employed by verse-makers. In popular poetry 

 it occurs but seldom. 



Rule for Rhyme. The accented Vbwel-soimds in the clausulas, together with 

 the sound or sounds folloiving (if there be any), should correspond exactly ; as, koXo^ 



KaKO'i TTOvripo^ : TOfio<; \idoTOfio<; : \eyofj,evo<i ypa<f>o/J,£t>o';, efiapavdijaav eylrv^avdtjcrav, KoXd KaKa, 

 ^(O-q ^vKaicr], irpo-fov /Mova^ov. 



ANTIQUITY OF ACCENTUAL RHYTHM, 



§ 45. 



Joannes Lydus, who flourished in the sixth century of the Christian era, recognizes 

 the distinction between long and short.^^ The hymns (^kovtolkio) of Saint Romanus, 

 however, show that accent began to encroach upon quantity at least as early as the 

 close of the fifth century.'^^ 



The following accentual dimeters are referred by the Byzantine chronographers to 



the time of Phocas the Rebel (o Tvpavvo<;), who reigned in the early part of the seventh 



century."" 



HaXiv et? rov KavKov eTrte?, 



UaXiv rov vovv aTre'KeK£<s, 



^^^ Ltd. 141 Hap p ik iSas 8c Poj/xatoi o^ayv/iur Tovs T( youiatv, tovs t€ jroXtrmv (j)ovfas aTroKaXovcri, nap fVTJj s 

 iKarepovs npoaayopevovTES. Aia(f)opav 8c eVl T^s iiTU>wp.iai ravTrjv irapf^oval Tiva • crvoreXXoiTfs yap ttjv TrpaTqv a-vKKa^riv 

 Kai ^pavfiav noiovvTfs tovs yoveas, iKTelvovres 8e Toiis vtttjkoovs arjfxaivoviTiv. That is, parentes, the plural of 



parens, with a short A, means parents, •yovtis, but parentes, from parens, pareo, with a long A, 

 means subjects, imjxoot. Here (rvorcXXovrfs, shortening, and cktciVoitci, lengtheiiing, refer to pronunciation. 

 Further, mn a pi vt r^s, this author represents the Latin case-ending ES (long E) by H2, and not by E2 ; 

 which shows that he did not regard E and H as isochronous. 

 ^^ See above, § 42. 



140 TnEOPH. 457 'O hk ^axas (7rolr)(rev 'nrrriKov, Ka\ ot Updcrivoi v^ptcrav avTov \fyoines, HaKiv eiy rov KavKov ?mes, 

 JlaKiv Tov vovv dn-e'XcKcy (v. 1. airoXecrcj) . Cedk. I, 709 IlaXti' rov olvov emts, TlaKiv Tov vovv a7Ta\e(Tas. GlyC. 

 511 GaKiv fls TOV KavKov tints, JlaKiv tov vovv an-aXccrar. 



The first line of this distich, as Theophanes gives it, is an accentual trochaic dimeter, cmts being pronounced 

 as a dissyllable. But as the second line is a decided iambic dimeter acatalectic, the first line may be read 



IlaXi 's TOK KavKov iiTies, OT U.a\' €is rov KavKOV imes. 



