Heroicus dactylo, Trochaicus et Iambicus uterque suo; nisi ubi pes Omnibus illis cognatus, spondeus, interponebatur, quo versus, ut noster ait, TARDIOR PAULLO GRAVIORQUE AD AURES VENIRET. Postea, ut varietatis gratiam aucuparentur, cola quædam sive partes Heroici versus cum colis Trochaici generis vel Iambici, et ricissim, in unum versum miscebant; unde magnus novorum versuum numerus illico nascebatur: quos Græci magistri 'AσvvaρThτous, hoc est, INCONNEXOS vocabant; quia alterum colon altero diversi generis connecti et coagmentari non potest, utcumque uno versiculo utrumque sit conclusum.

Hence the last syllable of each member is considered to be common. And the Asynartete verses themselves have been printed by many Editors, so that each member appears a complete verse, thus: Petti, nihil me sicut antea juvat Scribere versiculos

Amore perculsum gravi.

But Bentley, on the authority of Hephæstion, insists that they should be united. And indeed, if they were not, the poems in which they occur could not be classed among the Epodes. (See Introduc. ఓ Epod.)

The Elegiambus is so called, because its first member is an Elegiac Penthemimer; its second member is the Iambic Dimeter.

The Elegiac member has its scale thus :

Or

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Occasionally hiatus occurs between the two mem

bers:

EP. XI. 14: -Fervidiora mero arcana promorat loco

EP. XI. 24-Vincere mollitia amor Lysisci me tenet.

But the Epode in which these instances occur is one of the earliest, if not the very first, composed by Horace.

METRE VIII.—Ep. XII.

Consists of (1) a Dactylic Hexameter, with (2) a Dactylic Tetrameter:

d. Quid tibi vis, mulier, nigris dignissima barris.

B. Munera quid mihi, quidve tabellas.

In two instances (Carm. I. 28. II. 22.) a Spondee is admitted into the third place:

Mensorem cohibent Archyta.

The Casura occurs, in Horace, after the first syllable either of the second or third foot:

Carmine perpetuo | celebrare. 1. 7. 6.

O Fortespejoraque passi.

These verses of the 28th Ode, lib. 1, are irregular in Cæsura, sc. 9. 8. 33. 34.

METRE IX.-EPOD. XIII.

Consists (1) of the Dactylic Hexameter, as above; with (2) an Iambeligus:

(1) Horrida tempestas cœlum contraxit, et imbres.

(2) Nivesque deducunt Iovem ; | nunc mare nunc Silüæ

The Iambeligus (belonging to the Asynartetic class), as the composition of its name imports, is the direct reverse in order of the Elegiambus (above, Metre VII.)

Its first member, consequently, is an Iambic Dimeter Acatalectic, with the usual varieties; its second an Elegiac Penthemimer. There is no instance of hiatus between its members.

METRE X.-EPOD. XIV.

Consists (1) of a Dactylic Hexameter, with (2) an Iambic Dimeter:

a. Mollis inertia cur tantam diffuderit imis.

B'. Oblivionem sensibus.

METRE XI.-EPOD. XVI.

Consists (1) of a Dactylic Hexameter, with (2) an Iambic Trimeter (above, Metre VII.):

a. Altera jam teritur bellis civilibus ætas.

B'. Suis et ipsa Roma viribus ruit.

In this Epode every Iambic verse is pure—a peculiar circumstance, and indicative of considerable

care.

METRE XII.-EPOD. XVII.

Iambic trimeter alone (Metre VII.)

Jamjam efficaci do manus scientiæ.

CLASS THIRD

Consists of those metres commonly called Glyconic, and having their character from the introduction of the Choriambus.

METRE XIII.

The Asclepiadic Minor, consisting of an initial Spondee, two Choriambi, and a final Iambus or Pyrrhich.

a The Cesura is always at the end of the first Choriambic, except in 4 Carm. VIII. 17:

Non incendia Carthaginis impiæ,

On which see note: and 2 Carm. XII. 25:

Dum flagrantia de torqueat ad oscula,

Which may perhaps be legitimate, if the preposition be considered to be separated from the verb, as in the Alcaic, 1 Carm. XXXVII. :

Antehac nefas delpromere Cæcubum.

B A short syllable is once lengthened by the Ca

sura:

Quam si quidquid arāt\impiger Appulus.

And in 1 Carm. VI. 15. hiatus is not allowed, unless we read Merionen

Nigrum Merionem]? aut ope Palladis.

y. A monosyllable occasionally stands before the principal Cæsura:

Graiorum, neque TU|pessima munerum
Ferres, divite ME scilicet artium.

This verse

has been considered by some to be a Trimeter Choriambus; but I cannot conceive how the first and last members, separated by two inter

quantities as

choriambic.

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vening choriambi can be united, nor how such ,, could be called The verse has also been scanned as dactylic, i. e. a Spondee, Dactyl, long syllable (with cæsura) and two Dactyls.

METRE XIV.

(1) The Glyconic, with (2) the Asclepiadic Minor (No. XIII.):

a' Sic te diva potens Cypri

B' Sic fratres Helena, lucida sidera.

The Glyconic consists of an initial Spondee, one Choriambus, and a final Iambus or Pyrrhich:

Twice only a Trochee stands for the initial Spondee, 1 Carm. XV. 36:

Ignis Iliacas domos.

The correction of Pergameas for Iliacas removes this and in 1 Carm. XV. 24: Teucer et Sthenelus sciens; the reading now generally adopted is Teucer te Sthenelus sciens.

In 4 Carm. 1. 34, the syllable remaining over is elided:

Cur facunda parum deco¦ro

Inter verba cadit lingua silentia.

This verse has also been scanned as Dactylic, i. e. a Spondee, two Dactyls.

The verse cannot be formed by a trisyllabic word followed by a monosyllable, and two dissyllables. "Inultus út flebo puer, is a good cadence in the Iambic, but is excluded from the Glyconic; for instance, veloces pér ágros canes is not a Latin verse. One only similar to it is found in Catullus; and in that the cadence is interrupted by a semicolon after the first word, which completely alters the case. In other forms, when the difference of quantity more forcibly struck the ear, the same cadence was permitted in both."-HERBERT. Ed. Rev. xii. 373.

METRE XV.

The Asclepiadic Major, or Choriambic Tetrameter, consists of the initial Spondee, three Choriambi, and a final Iambus or Pyrrhic:

The Cesura occurs at the end of the first and second Choriambus, with one exception, 1 Carm. 18. 16:

Arcanique fides prodiga per lucidior vitro ; But this may be excused for the reason given above, on Metre XIII. a. A syllable, however, may be elided after the completed Choriambus. Thus:

Muta|tus Liguri|||num in faciem || verterit his|pidam. There is no instance in Horace of a monosyllabic termination.

In the Greek long Asclepiadic the Trochee is usual in the first place, which Horace does not admit, nor is the Casura observed as in his lines:

αμπέλου

μηδὲν | ἄλλο φυτευσης πρότερον | δένδρεον ἀμπέλου
| BAXO QUTEULONS

METRE XVI.

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Consists of three Asclepiadics Minor (as above, No. XIII.), and one Glyconic (as in No. XIV.): Scriberis Vario fortis, et hostium

Victor, Mæonii carminis alite

Quam rem cumque ferox navibus aut equis
Miles te duce gesserit.

METRE XVII.

Consists of two Aclepiadics Minor, No. XIII., one Pherecratian, and one Glyconic (XIV.) Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosá Perfusus liquidis urget odoribus

Grato, Pyrrha, sub antro

Cui flavam religas comam.

The Pherecratic consists of a Spondee, a Dactyl, and a Spondee:

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The last syllable is always long, and twice with hiatus in a long vowel.

1 CARM. XIII. 3:-Matrem non sine vano

Aurarum et Siluæ metu.

And 1 CARM. XIII. 8:-Dimovere lacertæ

Et corde genibus tremit.