Υἱοὺς Θήβαις αἰνίξατο παρμένοντας αἰχμᾷ. and The basis is sometimes placed at the end of a verse, is then called ecbasis (exßaois), as Aeschyl. Eum. 321, 322. Θᾶσσον καὶ ναὸς ὑποπτέρου παντᾶ. The ecbasis was even repeated, as Pind. Olymp. IX. Epod. 5. X X Αγγελίαν πέμψω ταύταν. The basis has this in common with the anacrusis that both occur before such rhythms only as begin with the arsis; the basis stands, therefore, before trochaic, dactylic, cretic and choriambic rhythms. As to the measure of the basis, it appears to be longer than that of the common trochees. In general the basis may be as long as one metre of the following rhythm; if the basis, therefore, stands before a trochaic rhythm which is to be measured by dipodies, it is to be drawn out as long as a trochaic dipody: In certain lyrical kinds the measure of the basis and ecbasis seems to have been even quadrupled, so that the trochaic basis corresponds to the trochaeus semantus, the iambic to the orthius. Hence it was preferred to have the basis and ecbasis fall on weighty words (comp. K. O. Müller: Aeschyl. Eum. p. 93, English translation, pp. 78, 79). (2) The Dipody.—Dipodia trochaica. (a) The Monometer.—Monometer trochaicus. acatalectus catalecticus. Both verses and systems are composed of the acatalec tic monometer. It is not used alone, but always connected with other rhythms, for example, with a logoaedic dactylic series: Οὐκέτι· στείχουσι γὰρ ἐς φόνον ἤδη. Δέξεται νύμφα χρυσέων ἀναδεσμῶν. It is also found placed after, as Soph. Ant. 593. Ἀρχαῖα τὰ Λαβδακιδᾶν οἴκων ὁρῶμαι. The catalectic monometer differs from the cretic by the pause only; it is, therefore, not easy to determine whether, in certain cases, the form is cretic or trochaic. It seems to be trochaic when it occurs in strophes of Doric composition, especially at a close, as Pind. Olymp. III. 2. Κλεινὰν Ακράγαντα γεραίρων εὔχομαι. and when in Roman comic poets it precedes iambic verses as a close, as Terent. Eun. ÎI. 3, 1. Phorm. III. 2, 1. óccidi, Neque virgo est usquam, néque ego, qui illam e conspectu amisi meo. nometer: a monometer iamb. hypercat. or tripodia iamb. catalect. (nevonuμegès iambicum). It occurs both singly, as Pind. Pyth. VI. 7. Ἑτοῖμος ὕμνων. and united to other rhythms, as Soph. Oed. Tyr. 1339. The catalectic monometer with the iamb resembles completely the dochmius, but the second short is never allowed to become irrational: as Pind. Pyth. V. 6. Both are frequently used singly as well as in connection with other rhythms, as Eur. Med. 979. Ὦ τινι, κραίνων ἐφετμὰς Ἡρακλέος προτέρας. The catalectic dimeter occurs especially as the concluding rhythm, as Pind. Olymp. VIII. 7. Τῶν δὲ μόχθων ἀμπνοάν. Olymp. III. Epod. 1. Ατρεκὴς Ἑλλανοδίκας γλεφάνων Αἰτωλὸς ἀνὴρ ὑψόθεν. and so likewise as a conclusion of trochaic systems. In the Roman comic poets it is frequently found as a close after longer rhythms which terminate in thesi, as after the tetrameter troch. acat. Terent. Andr. I. 5, 11. Adeon' hominem esse invenustum aut infelicem quémquam, ut ego sum? Pró Deum atque hominúm fidem. Sometimes it precedes, as Terent. Adelph. IV. 1, 8. Quód si abesset lóngius, Prius nox oppressisset illic, quam húc reverti pósset iterum. The anacrusis may be prefixed to the acatalectic dimeter: a dimeter iamb. hypercat., so called, as Soph. Οὐ γάρ ποτ' ἀμναστεῖ γ ̓ ὁ φύσας. Pind. Olymp. VI. 1. Χρυσέας ὑποστάσαντες εὐτειχεῖ προθύρῳ θαλάμου. In the Alcaic strophe it forms the third verse: Audita Musarum sacerdos. The catalectic dimeter with the anacrusis does not differ from Both can receive a basis also, as Pind. Olymp. VI. 6. Πρύμναις σῆμ ̓ Ἀχιλλείου στρατοῦ. If a trochaic tripody is attached to the acatalectic dimeter as a sort of epode, it makes what is called the tetrameter troch. brachycat. Οὐδ ̓ Αμειψίαν ὁρᾶτε πτώχον ὄντ ̓ ἐφ' ἡμῖν. Aesch. Prometh. 534, 535. Αλλά μοι τόδ' ἐμμένοι καὶ μήποτ' ἐκτακείη. (c) The Trimeter.—Trimeter trochaicus. Both are found as lyric verses only, sometimes singly, sometimes in connection with other rhythms. The acatalec tic is particularly suitable for the close of an entire rhythmical mass, as Pind. Olymp. III. 5. Δωρίῳ φωνὰν ἐναρμόξαι πεδίλῳ. Κεῖνος ἀνὴρ, ἐπικύρσαις ἀφθόνων ἀστῶν ἐν ἱμερταῖς ἀοιδαῖς. As an example of the catalectic, Pind. Olymp. XII. 3, may serve: Τὶν γὰρ ἐν πόντῳ κυβερνώνται θοαί. The acatalectic trimeter with the anacrusis is the trimeter iamb. hypercat. so called : |