I. SYSTEMS OF THE DOUBLE KIND. A. Trochaic Systems. They were frequently used by the lyric and comic poets.. They consist principally of dimeters, often, however, so that a monometer besides remains. The catalexis marks the close: Resolutions of the trochees are permitted. The dactyl is allowed in proper names only. The trochaic systems are, in comic poets, usually preceded or followed by trochaic verses. As an example take Aristoph. Vesp. 342 sqq. Pac. 571. Τοῦτ ̓ ἐτόλμησ ̓ ὁ μιαρὸς χα- Μὴ ξυνωμότης τις ἦν. Αλλ' ἀναμνησθέντες, άνδρες, Τῷ φρέατι, τῶν τ' ἐλαιῶν, Τήνδε νυνὶ Τὴν θεὸν προσείπατε. The tragedians have not, indeed, independent trochaic systems, but sometimes they repeat systematically trochaic series as parts of strophes, as Soph. Oed. Col. 1220—1224; 1235-1239, where the ithyphallic forms the close. "Αϊδος, ὅτε Μοῖρ ̓ ἀνυμέναιος Αλυρος ἄχορος ἀναπέφηνε, Θάνατος ἐς τελευτάν. ἀντ. Καὶ φθόνος· τό τε κατάμεμπτον Πύματον ἀκρατὲς ἀπροσόμιλον Γῆρας ἄφιλον, ἵνα πρόπαντα Compare also Eur. Orest. 1001-1004, where the close: 153 Μονόπωλον ἐς Αῶ. The tetrapodia troch. cat. repeated systematically occurs frequently, as Aesch. Eum. 508516; 517-525. στρ. Μηδέ τις κικλησκέτω Ξυμφορα τετυμμένος, Ὦ θρόνοι τ' Εριννύων, Καὶ φρενῶν ἐπίσκοπον Δειμανεῖ καθήμενον. Σωφρονεῖν ὑπὸ στένει. B. Iambic Systems. They were likewise used by lyric (Anacreon, Alcman) and comic poets. They, too, are arranged by dimeters, so, however, that frequently a monometer intervenes, usually before the closing series. The system usually ends with a tetrapodia iamb. catal. the last arsis of which is not resolved. Anapaests are every- ἀντ. Καὶ πολλὰ μὲν γέλοιά μ' εἰ- Τῆς σῆς ἑορτῆς ἀξίως Παίσαντα καὶ σκώψαντα νι A peculiar close: occurs in the systems Acharn. 835-841, 844-847, 850— 853, 856-859. Ἐν τἀγορᾷ καθήμενος, Κἂν εἰςίῃ τις Κτησίας, Ἢ συκοφάντης ἄλλος, οὐ μώζων καθεδεῖτε. The tragedians, without having independent systems, sometimes repeat systematically iambic rhythms, as Eur. Orest. 995 sqq., where the following rhythm forms the close : Ατρέος ἱπποβότα. Some have endeavored to find iambic systems in the Roman comic poets, also, as Plaut. Stich. I. 1. 11. Speró quidem et voló, sed hoc, Tantás absentibus facit Injúrias immérito. Such systems, however, may commonly be measured as iambic octonarii, to which a septenarius or an iambic close is subjoined. II. SYSTEMS OF THE EQUAL KIND. A. Dactylic Systems. The dactylic systems were used by lyric (Alcman, Ibycus, Stesichorus, Bacchylides), tragic and comic poets. They consist chiefly of acatalectic tetrameters mixed with longer or shorter dactylic rhythms, and often with others also, as logaoedic series, anapaests and dochmii. The latter cannot properly be considered as belonging to the systems. In antistrophic poems dactyls usually correspond to dactyls, spondees to spondees; proper names, however, make an exception. The termination is either the catalexis or a particular close. Alcman : Ibycus: (a) Systems of the lyric poets. Μῶσ', άγε, Καλλιόπα, θύγατερ Διὸς, Ευρύαλε, γλαυκέων Χαρίτων θάλος, Καλλικόμων μελέδημα, σὲ μὲν Κύπρις, (b) Systems of the dramatists. Soph. Elec. 129-136; 145–152. Ω στρ. Ὦ γενέθλα γενναίων, Ἥκετ ̓ ἐμῶν καμάτων παραμύθιον. Αἰαῖ, ἱκνοῦμαι. ἀντ. Νήπιος ὃς τῶν οἰκτρῶς Οἰχομένων γονέων ἐπιλάθεται. Ἀλλ ̓ ἐμέ γ' ὁ στονόεσσ ̓ ἄραρεν φρένας, Ὄρνις ἀτυζομένα, Διὸς ἄγγελος. Ἰὼ παντλάμων Νιόβα, σὲ δ ̓ ἔγωγε νέμω θεὸν, Αἰαῖ δακρύεις. Aristoph. Nub. 275-290; 299-313. στρ. Αέναοι Νεφέλαι, Αρθῶμεν φανεραὶ δροσερὰν φύσιν εὐάγητον, Πατρὸς ἀπ' Ὠκεανοῦ βαρυαχέος Υψηλῶν ὀρέων κορυφὰς ἐπὶ Δενδροκόμους, ἵνα Τηλεφανεῖς σκοπιὰς ἀφορώμεθα, Καρπούς τ ̓ ἀρδομέναν ἱερὰν χθόνα, Καὶ ποταμῶν ζαθέων κελαδήματα, Ἀλλ ̓ ἀποσεισάμεναι νέφος ὄμβριον Τηλεσκόπῳ ὄμματι γαῖαν. |