It has sometimes the basis, as Aesch. Pers. 864. Όσσας δ' ειλε πόλεις, πόρον οὐ διαβὰς Αλυος ποταμοῖο. An apparent hexameter is produced, when a dimeter cat. in disyll. is joined with a tetrameter cat. in disyll., as Eur. Phoen. 790.

Αἵματι Θήβας· κώμον ἀναυλότατον προχορεύεις,

or two trimetri cat. in disyll.

which rhythm even Pindar has, though, he does not otherwise use the hexameter.

Through the inversion of the last foot of the hexameter, a hexameter uɛíovoos, so called, arises:

The hexameter cat. in syll. does not appear to have been in use. The union of the trimet. cat. in disyll. with the trimet. cat. in syll. produces, in appearance, such a verse, as Pind. Pith. III. Epod. 7.

Ἔστι δὲ φῦλον ἐν ἀνθρώποισι ματαιότατον.

The third foot is never allowed to be a dactyl, whence the combination is apparent.

Longer dactylic series, which are mentioned by grammarians, as the heptameter cat. in disyll. (versus Stesichorius, Serv.), octameter cat. in syll. (versus Ibycius, Serv.), and the octameter cat. in disyll. seem to be either combinations, or portions of dactylic systems.

(b) Irrational Dactyls.

Logaoedic Series.

The irrational dactyl differs from the rational by the less extension and greater intensity of the arsis (P. I. ch. 4. p. 19). It thereby approaches to the trochaic rhythm, and, therefore, easily unites with it. Such dactylic-trochaic verses were, on account of their greater approximation to the rhythm of common language, called logaoedic (2oyaoıdıxoí). The shorts of the dactylic thesis are rarely contracted, because the greater rapidity which distinguishes the irrational from the rational dactyl, would thereby be lost. In the trochees

the long is not used for the short; resolutions, however, of the trochaic arsis, especially in the odd places, are not infrequent.

Since the logaoedic, like the rational dactyls, are measured by feet alone, and the number of feet both of the dactylic series and trochaic (measured by feet), never exceeds six, it is apparent that the logaoedic series, also, standing between the two, have never more than six feet at most. Hence it fol

lows that the number of the dactyls is always in the inverse ratio to that of the trochees. Logaoedic series in which the number of dactyls is equal to that of the trochees, are excluded from Dorian poetry :

Logaoedic series, in which the trochees are in too unequal a ratio to the dactyls, do not frequently occur:

The termination in trochees is, indeed, common in irrational dactyls, yet many dactylic rhythms occur, used chiefly by Aeolian lyric poets by the line, without a trochaic termination, with a basis which, because in them the dactyl never appears as a spondee, seem likewise to be irrational. The basis is treated freely, in the Aeolian manner.

The following are the Aeolian verses, so called:

Of the logaoedic dactyls the following are in use:

(1) Logaoedic dactyls with a simple dactyl.

(a) Dactylicus simplex simpliciter trochaicus.

The former is the versus Adonius, the latter the choriamb. The Adonian with the basis forms the Pherecratean,

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which in glyconic systems forms the close; but it can also be repeated by systems. It occurs not infrequently, in lyric and dramatic poets, singly, as Pind. Olymp. I. 4. Eur. Hipp. 546.

Ελδεαι φίλον ἦτορ.

Πῶλον ἄζυγα λέκτρων.

or in connexion with other rhythms, as Pind. Isthm. VI. 5.

Ἄντειλας Διόνυσον, ἢ χρυσῷ μεσονύκτιον νίφοντα δεξαμένα τὸν φέρτατον θεῶν.

It is also repeated twice or thrice, as Aesch. Pers. 556.
Τόξαρχος πολιήταις Σουσίδος φίλος ἄκτωρ.

Eur. Herc. fur. 359.

Πρῶτον μὲν Διὸς ἄλσος ἠρήμωσε λέοντος, πυρσοῦ δ ̓ ἀμφε. καλύφθη.

(b) Dactylicus simplex dupliciter trochaicus.

acatalectus.

catalecticus.

The former is very common in lyric and dramatic poets, especially as the closing rhythm, as Pind. Pyth. II. 8.

Κείνας ἀγαναῖσιν ἐν χερσὶ ποικιλανίους ἐδάμασσε πώλους.

Aesch. Prom. 906.

Τὰν Διὸς γὰρ οὐχ ὁρῶ μῆτιν ὅπα φύγοιμ' ἄν.
It frequently receives the anacrusis, Soph. Trach. 957.

a Glyconeus hypercatalectus, so called, as Aesch. Choeph. 793. 811.

Παλίμποινα θέλων ἀμείψει.

Ὄμμασι δνοφερὰς καλύπτρας.

According to Hephaestion this rhythm was called Sapphicum enneasyllabum or Hipponacteum :

Καὶ κνίσσῃ τινὰ θυμιήσας.

With the iambic or trochaic basis it is the Pindaricum hendecasyllabum, so called:

Ὁ Μουσαγέτας με καλεῖ χορεῦσαι.

With a preceding trochaic dipody it is the Sapphic verse, versus Sapphicus hendecasyllabus, of which the sapphic strophe is composed:

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Ποικιλόθρον, ἀθάνατ ̓ Ἀφροδίτα.

If to this rhythm the anacrusis is added, the Alcaicum dodecasyllabum is produced :

Ἰόπλοκ ἀγνὰ μειλιχόμειδε Σαπφοΐ.

If a cretic follows this measure, the epionicum tetrametrum catalecticum, so called, is formed.

The catalectic is likewise very frequent, as Eur. Med. 847 Ἢ πόλις ἢ φίλων.

Pind. Olymp. II. Epod. 1.

Λοιπῷ γένει. τῶν δὲ πεπραγμένων.

If a trochaic dipody with the anacrusis is prefixed, the Alcaicus hendecasyllabus is formed:

Ἄναξ Ἄπολλον, παῖ μεγάλω Διός,

the principal verse of the Alcaic strophe.
The catalectic frequently receives the anacrusis :

Soph. Oed. R. 1186. Pind. Pyth. VII. 6.

Ἰὼ γενεαὶ βροτῶν.

Ναίοντ ̓ ὀνομάξομαι.

With the basis it is the glyconic :

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This dactylic form of the glyconic is the original and pure, as Dorian lyric poetry uses it exclusively. În Pindar the basés are not changed; resolutions are frequent.

Pyth. VIII. Epod. 5.