In C. 2, 18, 34 possibly resolution occurs in the second foot regumque pueris, >, unless, as is probable, we should read by synizesis, pueris (cf. 38).

58. The Iambic Trimeter (with substitutions and resolutions):

prefix in im || plumibus, The irrational spondee third, and fifth feet;

Epod. 17. The caesura occurs after the Epod. 1, 19; and in || aestuet, Epod. 11, 15. is not infrequently substituted in the first, the tribrach is used chiefly in the second and third feet, rarely in the first and fourth; the dactyl is found in the first foot, rarely in the third; and the anapaest is possibly to be read in the first foot twice (Epod. 2, 35 pavidum, 65 positos) and three times in the fifth (Epod. 2, 35 laqueo, 5, 79 inferius, 11, 23 mulierculum); yet some of these cases may be read by synizesis as iambs (cf. 38). Examples of trimeters with various substitutions :

کا

(

است

uuluufuú

pavidumque lepo|rem_et || advenam | laqueo gruem,

or pav(i) dumque, laqueo (cf. 38, 40).

This consists of two trochaic dipodies with anacrusis. The second foot is always irrational.

Dactylic Verses.

61. The Lesser Archilochian:

Zuul fuul A
arboribusque co\mae

62. The Dactylic Tetrameter catalectic:

saeva ca put Proserpina | fugit In C. 1, 28, 2 a spondee is found in the third foot.

63. The Dactylic Hexameter:

The feminine caesura in the third foot is occasionally found, and the masculine caesura sometimes falls in the fourth or second foot. The four cases of spondees in the fifth foot are due to proper names (C. 1, 28, 21; Epod. 13, 9; 16, 17 and 29).

Dactylo-trochaic Verses.

64. In these the cola, rhythmical sentences, are separate; so that the verses are compound, having a change of time (4 to 3, or vice versa) within them. Syllaba anceps is allowed at the end of the first colon in the lambelegus and Elegiambus.

65. The Greater Archilochian (a dactylic tetrameter acatalectica trochaic tripody):

solvitur | acris hi|ems|| gra |ta vice || veris | et Favoni.

The caesura is found regularly after the third thesis, and a diaeresis after the dactylic colon. The fourth foot is always a dactyl.

66. The Iambelegus (a trochaic dimeter catalectic with anacrusis+ a lesser archilochian) :

tu: vina | Torquato move || consule | pressa me\o.

No substitutions but those indicated are allowed in the first colon; and spondees are not allowed in the second.

67. The Elegiambus (the cola of the Iambelegus reversed):

Λ

scribere | versiculos || amore | percus|sum gra|vi.

STROPHES

Most of the Odes are arranged in stanzas or strophes of four verses each; in a few the distich or the single verse is the metrical unit. In the Epodes, with the exception of the seventeenth, which is written in iambic trimeters, the epodic distich (cf. 4) is the unit. The lyric strophes used by Horace are these:

68. The Alcaic Strophe - two Greater Alcaics (50), one Ninesyllable Alcaic (60), and a Lesser Alcaic (49) :

This strophe is the most frequent; found in C. 1, 9. 16. 17. 26.

27. 29. 31. 34. 35. 37; 2, I. 3. 5. 7. 9. II. 13. 14. 15. 17. 19. 20; 3, 1-6. 17. 21. 23. 26. 29; 4, 4. 9. 14. 15. In 2, 3, 27 and 3, 29, 35 there is elision at the end of the third verse.

69. The Sapphic Strophe three Lesser Sapphics (51), and an Adonic (45)

After the Alcaic the most frequent strophe; found in C. 1, 2. 10. 12. 20. 22. 25. 30. 32. 38; 2, 2. 4. 6. 8. 10. 16; 3, 8. 11. 14. 18. 20. 22. 27; 4, 2. 6. 11; C. S. The feminine caesura is found in a few cases (cf. 51). In a number of strophes Horace follows Sappho in treating the third and fourth verses as one, so that in three places (C. 1, 2, 19; 1, 25, 11; 2, 16, 7) words run over from one verse to the next as now printed; elision at the end of the third verse is found, 4, 2, 23 and C. S. 47; hiatus between the verses occurs but four times (C. 1, 2, 47; 1, 12, 7 and 31; 1, 22, 15); and in most cases the dactyl of the fourth verse is preceded by a spondee at the close of the third.

Elision occurs three times also at the end of the second verse (C. 2, 2, 18; 2, 16, 34; 4, 2, 22).

70. The Greater Sapphic Strophe — an Aristophanic verse (46) followed by a Greater Sapphic (52): —

71. The First Asclepiadic Strophe - a Glyconic (48) followed by a Lesser Asclepiadic (53) :

C. 1, 3. 13. 19. 36; 3, 9. 15. 19. 24. 25. 28; 4, 1. 3. Elision at the end of the Glyconic is found 4, 1, 35.

72. The Second Asclepiadic Strophe — three Lesser Asclepiadics followed by a Glyconic :

C. 1, 6. 15. 24. 33; 2, 12; 3, 10. 16; 4, 5. 12.

73. The Third Asclepiadic Strophe - two Lesser Asclepiadics, a Pherecratic (47), and a Glyconic :

C. 1, 5. 14. 21. 23; 3, 7. 13; 4, 13.

74. The Iambic Strophe an Iambic Trimeter (58) followed by an Iambic Dimeter (55):

75. The First Pythiambic Strophe -a Dactylic Hexameter (63) followed by an Iambic Dimeter (55):

76. The Second Pythiambic Strophe - a Dactylic Hexameter followed by a Pure Iambic Trimeter :

77. The Alemanian Strophe-a Dactylic Hexameter followed by a Dactylic Tetrameter (62) : —