2. VERSES with a SPONDAIC BASE.

a. Lesser Asclepiad Verse:—a spondee as base, followed by two choriambi and an iambus.

at the close of the first choriambus.

Incision takes place

Cantus + mě võluit || dicěrě luc|ĭdum.
Fulgentes oculōs || ēt běně mūť|ŭis.

b. Glyconic Verse:-a spondee as base, followed by a choriambus and an iambus.

Aptă + |rī cithăræ | mŏdis.

Fulgens contrěmuit | domus.

3. VERSES with a TROCHAIC BASE.

Sapphic hendecasyllable (line of eleven syllables) :-a trochaic monometer, of which the second foot is always a spondee, as base; followed by a dactyl and two trochees. Casura properly takes place at the first syllable of the dactyl.

Nullus | argent +|õ* còlòr | ēst åvļāris

Ābdit|ō tērr +|is* inĭm|īcě | lāmnæ.

The cæsura sometimes, yet rarely, occurs after the first short syllable of the dactyl.

Flumen | et regn +-ļātă* pět|ām Lăc|ōni.

4. VERSE with IAMBIC BASE.

Alcaic hendecasyllable (line of eleven syllables) :—an iambic dimeter hypercatalectic as base, followed by a choriambus and an iambus. Incision takes place at the end of the base.

Făm nunc | mināc + ī || mūrmŭrě cōrn|uum.
Amice Valgi +|| stāt glăciēs | iners.

The base being iambic, an iambus might be expected to be at least frequent in the first foot. This, however, is rarely the case, the spondee being generally employed.

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FLACCI CARMINUM

LIBER SECUNDUS.

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MOTUM ex Metello consule civicum,
Bellique causas et vitia et modos,
Ludumque Fortunæ, gravesque
Principum amicitias, et arma

Nondum expiatis uncta cruoribus,
Periculosæ plenum opus aleæ,
Tractas, et incedis per ignes
Suppositos cineri doloso.

Paulum severæ Musa tragœdiæ
Desit theatris: mox, ubi publicas
Res ordinâris, grande munus
Cecropio repetes cothurno,

Insigne mæstis præsidium reis
Et consulenti Pollio curiæ,
Cui laurus æternos honores
Dalmatico peperit triumpho.

Horace, Book II.

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Jam nunc minaci murmure cornuum
Perstringis aures, jam litui strepunt,
Jam fulgor armorum fugaces

Terret equos equitumque vultūs.
Audire magnos jam videor duces
Non indecoro pulvere sordidos,
Et cuncta terrarum subacta

Præter atrocem animum Catonis.

Juno, et deorum quisquis amicior
Afris inulta cesserat impotens

Tellure, victorum nepotes

Rettulit inferias Jugurtha.

Quis non Latino sanguine pinguior

Campus sepulcris impia prælia

Testatur, auditumque Medis

Hesperiæ sonitum ruinæ ?

Qui gurges, aut quæ flumina lugubris
Ignara belli? quod mare Dauniæ
Non decoloravere cædes?

Quæ caret ora cruore nostro ?

Sed ne, relictis, Musa procax, jocis,
Ceæ retractes munera neniæ :

Mecum Dionæo sub antro

Quære modos leviore plectro.

II.

NULLUS argento color est avaris

Abdito terris, inimice lamnæ,

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Crispe Sallusti, nisi temperato

Splendeat usu.

Vivet extento Proculeius ævo
Notus in fratres animi paterni :
Illum aget pennā metuente solvi
Fama superstes.

Latiùs regnes avidum domando
Spiritum, quàm si Libyam remotis
Gadibus jungas, et uterque Pœnus
Serviat uni.

Crescit indulgens sibi dirus hydrops,
Nec sitim pellit, nisi causa morbi
Fugerit venis, et aquosus albo
Corpore languor.

Redditum Cyri solio Phraaten
Dissidens plebi numero beatorum
Eximit Virtus, populumque falsis
Dedocet uti

Vocibus; regnum et diadema tutum

Deferens uni propriamque laurum,

Quisquis ingentes oculo irretorto
Spectat acervos.

III.

ÆQUAM memento rebus in arduis

Servare mentem, non secus in bonis
Ab insolenti temperatam

Lætitiā, moriture Delli,

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Seu mæstus omni tempore vixeris,
Seu te in remoto gramine per dies
Festos reclinatum beâris

Interiore nota Falerni.

Quò pinus ingens albaque populus
Umbram hospitalem consociare amant
Ramis? quid obliquo laborat
Lympha fugax trepidare rivo?

Huc vina et unguenta et nimium breves
Flores amœnæ ferre jube rosæ,

Dum res et ætas et Sororum
Fila trium patiuntur atra.

Cedes coëmptis saltibus, et domo,
Villaque, flavus quam Tiberis lavit ;
Cedes, et exstructis in altum
Divitiis potietur heres.

Divesne prisco natus ab Inacho,
Nil interest, an pauper et infimā
De gente sub divo moreris,

Victima nil miserantis Orci.

Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium
Versatur urnā seriùs ociùs

Sors exitura, et nos in æternum
Exsilium impositura cymbæ.

IV.

NE sit ancillæ tibi amor pudori,
Xanthia Phoceu ! Prius insolentem

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