VERSIFICATION. 



O/Mixt Verfcs. 



Verfes are faid to be mixt, when two of different kinds 

 are united. Amongft the Latin poets we find the foUow- 

 sjig variety. 



1. The Archilochian pentameter oonfifts of two mem- 

 bers, the firft a dadlylic tetrameter a priore, the latter is a 

 trochaic dimeter brachycatalettic ; as, 



Solvilur I acris hi-] -ems gra-^-ta vice 1| verts | et Fa-'i 

 -voni. — Hor. 



2. The Archilochian elegiambic ; of which the firft 

 member is the latter part of an elegiac pentameter, or the 

 Archilochian daftylic penthemimer, (confiftmg of two 

 daftyls and a fy liable,) the fecond member, the iambic di- 

 meter acataleAic ; as, 



Scrlberg | versicu- 1 -los, || am6-|-re per-|-ciiffum j gravi. 



Hor. 



which is commonly thus divided into two verfes ; 



Scribere verficulos 

 Amore percuffum gravi. 



3. The dadiylic hexameter acataleftic confifts of two 

 divifions of an hexameter, each of three feet, but in fuch 

 a manner, that in the firft place of each there is a fpondee, 

 or a trochee, or iambus ; in the fecond and third place of the 

 firft divifion, there is a daftylus ; in the fecond place of the 

 fecond divifion a daftyl, and the third or laft a fpondee. 

 In this kind of verfe the laft' fyllable of the firft divifion is 

 accounted common ; as, 



Nam te | pricipu-J-e In silis || urbi-[-bus colit | ora. 



Catul. 



4. The iambelegiac (the converfe of No. 2.), in which the 

 firft divifion is iambic, and the fecond elegiac ; thus, 



Nivis-'-que de-|-duciint.| jQvem : |i nunc marc | niinc 

 silii ae. — Hor. 



Commonly thus divided, 



Nivefque deducur.t Jovem : 

 Nunc mare nunc Cliias. 



5. The choriambic daftylic ; in which the firft divifion 

 is the Glyconic, having generally in the firft place a tro- 

 chee ; the fecond divifion is the Pherecratic, with a trochee 

 alfo in the beginning ; thus, 



O Colloniaqux | ctipis || pontg | liidere | longo Catul. 



6. The choriambic trochaic ; of which the firil divifion 

 is the choriambic dimeter, or two choriambufes : the fecond, 

 the trochaic dimeter brachycataleAic, of which the firft foot 

 is a daftyl, the other two trochees ; thus, 



Veftiat Al-'-pintis Spex || et rube.|-ant prii-|-insE. 



Claud. 



7. The trochaic daftylic ; of which the firft divifion is a 

 trochaic penthemimer ; that is, in the firft place there is a 

 trochee, in the fecond a fpondee or daftyl, with an addi- 

 tional fyllable ; and the fecond part is an adonic ; as, 



in the fecond a tribrac ; and in the laft part an adonic ; 

 thus, 



PropTn-'-qua fum-|-m6 

 Mergat-|-que se-j-ras || 

 Stilpet-|-qile filbi-|-tis ] 



Si quis I Arftii-l-ri l| sldera | nefcit. 



Cum ni-!-mIs cel6-'-res |i explicet I ortus. — 



-Boet. 



II cardine | labi 

 aequdre | flammas. — Boct. 

 I mobllfi I vuljcus. 



8. The iambic daftylic ; of which the firft is an iambic 

 penthemimer, confifting of two iambi, with a long fyllable, 

 but oftener in the firft place a fpondee, and fometimcs 

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Of Compofit'wns in ivhich the Verfe is varied. 

 From what has been already faid, it appears that there 

 are five different fpecies of compofition, confifting of a com- 

 bination of various kinds of verfes, and in each there are 

 generally feveral varieties. ' 



I. Of the Carmen Diction Diftrophon. 



1. The elegiac diftich is already explained. See Pen- 1 

 tameter, Obf. 5. 



2. An hexameter with an Archilochian daftylic pen- 

 themimer ; as, 



Diffugere nives ; redeunt jam gramina'campis 

 Arboribufque comae. — Hor. 



3. An hexameter with an Alcmanian daftylic tetrame- 

 ter acatalaftic ; as. 



Tunc me difcuffa liquerunt nofte tenebrae, 

 Luminibufque prior rediit vigor Boet. 



4. An hexameter with an Alcmanian daftylic tetrameter 

 cataleftic ; as, 



Laudabunt alii claram Rhoden, aut Metylenen, 

 Aut Ephefum, bimarifve Corinthi. — Hor. 



5. An hexameter with an Alcmanian da£lylic tetrameter* 

 cataleAic ; as, 



O qui perpetuis orbem moderaris habenis 

 Placidos bonus exfere vultus. — Buchan. Pfal. 68. 



6. An hexameter with an iambic dimeter acataleftic ; as, 



Nox erat, et ccelo fulgebat luna fereno 

 Inter minora fidera Hor. 



7. An hexameter with an iambic trimeter ; as, 



Altera jam teritur bellis civilibus xtas ; 

 Suis et ipfa Roma viribus ruit. — Hor. 



8. An hexameter with an Archilochian elegiambic 

 afyn ; as, 



Horrida tempeftas coelum contraxit ; et imbres 

 Nivefque deducunt Jovem : nunc mare, nunc filiiae. — Hor. 



9. An Alcmanian daftylic trimeter hypercataleftic, vnih 

 a Pherecratic daftylic trimeter acataledlic ; as, 



Omne hominum genus in terris 

 Simili furgit ab ortu. — Boet. 



10. The Alcmanian daftylic tetrameter acataleftic, with 

 an Archilochian daftyhc dimeter hypercataleftic ; as, 



Quam thalamo, taedifque jugalibus 

 Invida mors rapuit. — Aufon. Parent 2. 



11. The Alcmanian dactylic tetrameter acataledlic, with 

 n iambic dimeter acataleAic ; as. 



Sunt etenim pennae volucres mihi 

 Qux celfa confcendant poll Boet. 



F2. The Anacreontic iambic dimeter cataledlic, with the 

 Pherecratic daftylic trimeter acataleftic ; as, 



Quifquis volet perennem 

 Cantus ponere fedem.— Boet. 



13. The 



