Trochaicum.-Metrum Hipponacteum. The proöde consists of a tetrapodia trochaica catalect., the principal verse of a monometer troch. cum anacrusi with an ithyphallic following. Horace uses the distich, Carm. II. 18. Non ebur neque aureum Mea renidet in domo lacunar, Non trabes Hymettiae Premunt columnas ultima recisas Africa, neque Attali Ignotus haeres regiam occupavi etc. The anacrusis in the second verse, excepting V. 6 and V. 34, is always short. A resolved arsis is found only once, V. 34. Regumque pueris, nec satelles Orci. The diaeresis before the ithyphallic is always observed. The principal verse is a trimeter iamb. acat., the epode an ithyphallic. Simonides: Οἷον τόδ' ἡμῖν ἑρπετὸν παρέπτατο Ζώϊον κάκιστον. Ανάγετ', ἀνάγετε κώμον, εὐρυχωρίαν Τῷ θεῷ ποιεῖτε· Ἐθέλει γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς ὄρθος ἐσφυρωμένος Iambicum senarium quaternarium. The principal verse is a trimeter iamb. acat., the epode a dimet. iamb. acat. Archilochus : Πάτερ Λυκάμβα, ποῖον ἐφράσω τόδε ; Τίς σὰς παρήειρεν φρένας ; Horace used this, distich in the first ten Epodes. As an example take Epod. II. 1—8. Beatus ille, qui procul negotiis, Ut prisca gens mortalium, Neque excitatur classico miles truci, Neque horret iratum mare, Potentiorum limina. Feet of three syllables, tribrachs, dactyls, anapaests, sometimes occur in the trimeter, as Epod. I. 27. II. 35. V. 15. 49. Pecusve Calabris ante sidus fervidum. Pavidumque leporem et advenam laqueo gruem. Quid dixit? aut quid tacuit? o rebus meis; in the dimeter more rarely, indeed only three times in all the ten Epodes: II. 62. III. 8. V. 48. Videre properantes domum. The hiatus Epod. V. 100, is to be noted: Et Esquilinae alites. The trimeter has the usual caesura, the dimeter no fixed caesura. A trimet. dact. cat. in syllabam follows the iambic trimeter as an epode. An iambic trimeter is followed by a verse composed, in the asynartete mode, of a trimeter dact. cat. in syllab. and dimet. iamb. acat. Horace has this distich, Epod. XI. Pecti, nihil me sicut antea juvat Scribere versiculos amore perculsum gravi, Amore, qui me praeter omnes expetit Hic tertius December, ex quo destiti Inachia furere, sylvis honorem decutit etc. The trimeter sometimes has feet of three syllables, V. 23 and 28. Nunc gloriantis quamlibet mulierculam. In the dimeter the arses are nowhere resolved. In the second verse, at the junction of the series, the short stands three times for the long, V. 6, 10, 26. Inachia furere, sylvis honorem decutit. and the hiatus occurs twice, V. 14, 24. Fervidiora mero-arcana promorat loco. Vincere mollitia-amor Lycisci me tenet. The diaeresis after the dactyl is always observed. An Alcaic verse (dactyl. logaoed. duplex. dupliciter troch. acat.) follows the iambic trimeter as an epode. Phaedimus : Τόξον μὲν, ᾧ Γίγαντος ὤλεσας σθένος, Οὗ σοι φαρέτρη λύεται λυκοκτόνος, Τόνδε δ ̓ ἐπὶ ἠθέοις ὀϊστὸν Στρέφειν Ἔρωτος, τόφρ' ἀλέξωνται πάτρῃ Θαρσαλέοι φιλότατι κούρων· A Phalaecean follows the iambic trimeter as an epode, Theocr. Epigr. XVI. Θᾶσαι τὸν ἀνδριάντα τοῦτον, ὦ ξένε, Τῶν πρόσθ ̓ εἴτι περισσὸν ᾠδοποιῶν, The principal verse is a trimeter iamb. claudus, the epode a dimet. iamb. acat.: Martial. Epigr. I. 62. Verona docti syllabas amat vatis, Marone felix Mantua est; A peculiar construction occurs in Theocr. Εpigr. XVII. It consist of five distichs, of which 1, 3, 5, are combined of a tetrameter troch. cat. and an Adonius with the anacrusis, which in V. 10, is also of two syllables, but 2, 4, are composed of a trimet. iamb. acat. and an Adonius with the anacrusis. Α τε φωνὰ Δώριος· χωνὴρ, ὁ τὰν κωμῳδίαν Εὑρὼν, Επίχαρμος. Ὦ Βάκχε, χάλκεον νιν ἀντ ̓ ἀλαθινοῦ Τὶν ὧδ ̓ ἀνέθηκαν. Το Συρακόσσαις ἐνίδρυνται πελώρεις τῇ πόλει, Οἱ ἀνδρὶ πολίτα, Σωρὸν γὰρ εἶχε χρημάτων, μεμναμένοι Τελεῖν ἐπίχειρα. Πολλὰ γὰρ ποττὰν ζωὴν τοῖς παισὶν εἶπε χρήσιμα. Μεγάλα χάρις αὐτῷ. |