VERSIFICATION. 



Trimeters or fenarii. 



Kaxiov ovSiVy xa^TTOf ou xo/aw^eoj. 



Am; ajoi/ja 9aj»aTov Exxajm^sTat 



H yxf |i/»iiTteaj ffXoiov euo-£^ri; awBj 



NauTjiT* vEgjutci; xai 'jravov^yix T*vi, 



OXaiAsv a»Jj«)ii OT/n Ssotti/A 7£>£»* — ^fchylus. 



II. Trochaic Metre. 



1. A trochaic verfe admits trochees in the odd places, 

 trochees and fpondees in the even places. 



2. The trochee may in any place be refolved into a 

 tribrach ; and the fpondee into a daftyl or anapseft. 



3. A daftyl in the odd places occurs only in the cafe of a 

 proper name. 



4. Ill trochaic tetrameters, the fecond metre fhould 

 always end with a word. 



Dimeters cataleftic. 



TavTa T*; ra;^* av ffarw^ 



H TExouya vE07ra9»; 



OtxTow oiKTirratr'. etei- 



-in TTiTvEi ^0^0,- Aixa;.— ^fchylus. 



Tetrameters cataleftic. 



Ou ya^ av |ufi^ai(isv aXKin;, n' iri loi; EHjn^iEKjjf, 

 n<rrE /AE aiinTTT^-jiv x^aTouiiTa, Tyicrd' avaxT* Eivxi )^Qok^. 

 Tuv paxcwv d a^raXAayEtaa vot/G£T>jjuaTwv /x' Ea. 

 Ka* o"u Twvd' e|w xo/xi^iti TEt;^t:t'?, ti xarOav*:. 



III. Anapxjlic Metre. 



1. An anapasftic admits cither in the even or odd places 

 an anapi^ft, a fpondee, or a daftyl. 



2. Except the dimeter catalcftic, called parsmiacus, 

 which requires an ajiapxft only in the laft place but one. 



3. Anapseftic verfes are fometimes intermixed with other 

 fpccies. 



4. A fyftem is chiefly compofed of dimeters, and is moft 

 correft when, firft, each foot, or at leaft each fyzygy, ends 

 with a word : fecondly, when the laft verfe but one, is 

 monometer acataleftic ; and the laft, dimeter cataleftic; 

 with an anapseft in the fecond metre. 



5. In a fyftem, the laft fyllable of each verfe is not (as 

 in other fpecies) common ; but has its quantity regulated 

 by the foot of which it is a part. 



6. Tiie monometer acataleftic is termed an anapaeftic 

 bafe. This, in a fyftem, is fometimes difpenfed with. In 

 the paraemiacus rarely. 



7. A fcries of anapxftic verfes, confifting of one or more 

 fcntences, muft be conftrudlcd as if each fentence were only 

 a fingle verfe. Therefore, if the laft foot of a verfe, in the 

 middle of a fentence, begin as an anapseft or fpondee, its laft 

 fyllable muft be long ; but as a daftyl, fhort. This rule, 

 however, may be difpenfed with, when a tribrach, cretic, or 

 trochee, fupplies the place of an anapxft, daftyl, or fpondee. 



8. An anapjeftic verfe has fometimes in the laft place a 

 proccleufmatic, which foot is ifochronal to an anapaeft ; as, 



ITjo; £f40> I jKoysi'ETO | ^a. — £ur. Ph. 1 69. 



Anapaeftic fyftem with the bafe. 



AnXov E/xo< y ui ^^{ffns x?"?' 

 ZTibfiv oy^ivu TovdE Tn\a; irov. 

 TauT)i» ya^ 'X'" ^"'''■•n ai/xov 

 Aoyo? Eoli (Tuo'ii', OnjoCoXouvra 

 riTtivoi; io»; o-li/yifov (Avyt^in:. 

 OudE Ti»' ayrtiJ 

 rioewvK KccKWi nciWjUit, 



Anapaeftic fyftem without the bafe. 



12 dEivOV idE(v TraOoi avfi^i;7f0ij, 



n dEivoTaroi' TravTtov ocr' iyi4 



TTjOiTEt*! ^av*a ; t*5 TrnorTaj 

 ^Ci^CilV JLtEi^Ova Tijy jxYtKivruv 



<l>w, (ptu, dua-Tccv'. aW' cuj' EaiJEin 

 Auwajuai a-e, QiXm n'oXX' avi^tT^xt, 

 TlaKXx sruflEo-Gai, :roW.» cf aB^no-ai. 

 Toi«» ^fixw T«(i;^Ei; juoi.^Sophocles. 



Syftem of paraemiaci. 



Siyay *iiv a^ra-j fj^e a-iyxy 

 K&A Tavra Xo") ov raj^a cteutii* 



H/UIV d'lOxX>1 TaT^ig EiTTi. 



TiXiof^it ^ ajj.' oJuiro-Ei Sehu. — Cratiu. 

 Tetrameters cataleftic. 



Oiwu t' «tr{;^Ei xai yt/iwao-iuv xai tiuv aWut atomm, 

 Kai /SsXtiitIoi'. toi/to w^ii^eij, ot£{ eixo; SeJioh a»J^a, 

 N*xay ^aaTTOJv xxi ^ouXeucv xat rn yXwTT)! TToXt^t^wv. 



Ariftoph. 

 IV. Daaylic Metre. 



1. A daftylic verfe confifts only of daftyls and fpondees. 



2. The common heroic is hexameter acatalettic, having 

 in the fifth place a daftyl, in the laft, a fpondee. 



3. In the heroic verfe, feveral licences are allowed, which • 

 are not admitted in iambic metre ; as, firft, the lengthening 

 a fhort final fyllable not only at the place of the cacfural 

 paufe, but fometimes even on other final fyllables, whofe 

 empliafis is increafed by their beginning a foot ; as, 



To|' uifj-OitTtv E;^£tJV a//[p*^E^£a. te (^a^Fx^nv. — 11. a 4J. 



Secondly, the hiatus, or tlie concurrence of two vowels in 

 contiguous words ; as wlien the word ends with a fliort vowel, 

 AXX" axsaadj xa&ns-o, euiw5' eottteiSeo (i/i/9w. 11.3565. Or when 

 the word ends with a long vowel or diphthong, in which 

 cafes ^lie fyllable may either be long without ellfion, or 

 fhort, on the fuppofition that the latter of the component 

 vowels is cut ofl ; as, 



Ka^i^jn; aXo^Hf ete* u eGev 65"* ^s^Eiwy 



Ot/X eQeXoV dE|«9ai' ETTEi vToXv WaXojLt«l aUTHV. 



4. The Ionic dialeft affords great variety in the form of 

 epic verfes. And that irregular fort of daftylics, called 

 jeolics, admits in the firft place any foot of two fyllables : 

 the reft muft be all dadtyls, except when the verfe is cata- 

 leftic, and then the cataleftic part muft be a trochee. 



5. Hephaeftion terms that fpecies of daftyhcs, logoocdics, 

 which requires at the end a trochaic fyzygy ; but every where 

 elfc a daftyl. 



Daftyhc trimeters. 



Ai Moutrat Toy EjenTa 

 Ari<rcei7»i clsifawiiff'i, 

 Til KaXXu trafsJo/xa* 

 Ka> >i» <i Ki/Oe^eik 

 Zhtii, Xut{* ^EfOUira, 

 Ai/eratrSai Toy E^iuTa..— Anacr. 



Daftylic hexameters. 



E» !>' Birto-', lu'c oTB KUfta, fieri ev yni irirmt 

 Aaff{0» vTcai n^imi, axjiioT^iipii* » "' " irac* 

 A;^v>) VTtx^v^Qyij avE^o»o di diivo; ccnrti; 



I(7T1U/ IfiC^llilTCtt. TfOfXIOVO-i Jl TE <?{(»« VabTai 



.^Eioicnsi- TuSou yaf v'lr' i« Oa»«TOio (fifoyTat.— Horn. 



M 2 Elegiac. 



