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Ὦ ψυχὰ, πῶς σιγάσω ;
Πῶς δὲ σκοτίας ἀναφήνω
Εὐνὰς, αἰδοῦς δ ̓ ἀπολειφθῶ;

862-880 are strictly anapaestic systems:
Ὦ τᾶς ἑπταφθόγγου μέλπων
Κιθάρας ἐνοπὰν, ἅτ ̓ ἀγραύλοις
Κέρασιν ἐν ἀψύχοις ἀχεῖ
Μουσῶν ὕμνους εὐαχήτους,
Σοὶ μομφὰν, ὦ Λατοῦς παῖ,
Πρὸς τάνδ' αὐγὰν αὐδάσω.

Ἦλθές μοι χρυσῷ χαίταν
Μαρμαίρων, εὖτ ̓ εἰς κόλπους

Κρόκεα πέταλα φάρεσιν ἔδρεπον*

Ἀνθίζειν χρυσανταυγῇ.

Λευκοῖς δ ̓ ἐμφὺς καρποῖσιν

Χειρῶν εἰς ἄντρου κοίτας

Κραυγὰν ὦ ματέρ μ' αὐδῶσαν.

Θεὸς ὁμευνέτας ἆγες ἀναιδείᾳ (2 dochm.)

Κύπριδι χάριν πράσσων (tripod. anap. cat.)
Τίκτω δ ̓ ἡ δύστανός σοι

Κοῦρον, τὸν φρίκα ματρὸς
Εἰς εὐνὰν βάλλω τὰν σὰν,
• να με λέχεσι μέλεα μέλεος
Ἐζεύξω τὰν δύστανον.

Either a tripodia anapaest. acat. in which the anapaest has the form of the proceleusmatic :

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Κακὸς εὐνάτωρ,

Ὃς τῷ μὲν ἐμῷ νυμφεύτᾳ

Χάριν οὐ προλαβών

Παῖδ ̓ εἰς οἴκους οἰκίζεις.
Ὁ δ ̓ ἐμὸς γενέτας

Καὶ σός γ ̓ ἀμαθὴς οἰωνοῖς
Ἔῤῥει συλαθεὶς οἰκεῖα

Σπάργανα ματέρος ἐξαλλάξας.
Μισεῖ σ' ὁ Δᾶλος καὶ δάφνας
Ἔρνεα φοίνικα παρ' ἁβροκόμαν,
Ενθα λοχεύματα σέμν ̓ ἐλοχεύσατο
Λατώ Δίοισί σε καρποῖς.

The Roman dramatists, also, had anapaestic systems. The older tragedians followed pretty faithfully the Greek models, although they seem to have cared less for the connection of the series, whence the hiatus and anceps in the system. An anapaest could also follow a dactyl in the same dipody, as Attius Philoct. in Cic. Τusc. II. 7.

Jam jam absumor, conficit animam.

The diaeresis is not always observed. As an example take Enn. Nipt. in Cic. Tusc. II. 21.

Retinete! tenete, opprimit ulcus.

Nudate! heu miserum me, excrucior !
Operite! abscedite jam jam !

Mittite nam attrectatu et quassu

Saevum amplificatis dolorem!

Seneca, who frequently has anapaestic systems in his tragedies, treats them as asynartete; whence the hiatus and anceps occur frequently at the end of the dimeter. He does not know the use of the paroemiac. The dimeters are frequently interrupted by a monometer. As example take Oed. V. 2. Fatis agimur, cedite fatis.

Non sollicitae possunt curae
Mutare rati stamina fusi.

Quidquid patimur mortale genus,
Quidquid facimus, venit ex alto,
Servatque suae decreta colus
Lachesis dura revoluta manu.

Omnia certo tramite vadunt, etc.

Plautus, among the comic poets, has tic systems which he treats very freely. often follow which he frequently forms example take Stich. II. 1. 37 sqq.

frequently anapaesSeveral paroemiacs with spondees. As

Aperite atque approperate, fores
Facite ut pateant! removete moram !
Nimis haec res sine cura geritur.
Vide, quam dudum hic asto et pulto!
Somnon' operam datis? experiar

Fores, an cubiti, an pedes plus valeant.
Nimis vellem hae fores herum fugissent!
Ea causa, ut haberent malum magnum.
Defessus sum pultando,

Hoc est postremum vobis.

G. Ibo, atque hunc compellabo.
Salvus sis! D. Et tu salve.

III. SYSTEMS OF THE PAEONIAN KIND.

A. Cretic Systems.

The cretics are united into systems, the feet being usually joined two by two, although sometimes there is a monometer Such systems were frequently used by lyric (Bacchylides) and dramatic poets. With the latter, especially the comic poets, the cretic appears frequently as a first or

over.

fourth paeon, or altogether resolved into shorts. Cretic systems have no fixed close. They occur usually in trochaic and iambic measures. It is not necessary in antistrophic poems that like feet should correspond. As examples take the following systems:

Lyric poets. Bacchylides:

Οὐχ ἕδρας ἔργον οὐδ ̓

Ἀμβολᾶς, ἀλλὰ χρυ
σαιγίδος Ιτωνίας

Χρὴ παρ' εὐδαίδαλον

Ναὸν ἐλ

θόντας ἁβρόν τι δεῖξαι (----ναυλο

Dramatists. Aesch. Suppl. 418-422, 423427.

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Βορβοροτάραξι καὶ
Τὴν πόλιν ἅπασαν ή-

μῶν ἀνατετυρβακὼς,

Ὅστις ἡμῶν τὰς Αθήνας ἐκκεκώφηκας βοῶν,

Κἀπὸ τῶν πετρῶν ἄνωθεν τοὺς φόρους θυννοσκοπῶν.

ἀντ. Ἦν ἄρα πυρός γ ̓ ἕτερα
Θερμότερα, καὶ λόγων

Ἐν πόλει

Τῶν ἀναιδῶν ἀναι
δέστεροι καὶ τὸ πρᾶγμ ̓

Ἦν ἄρ ̓ οὐ φαῦλον ὧδ ̓

* * * Ἀλλ ̓ ἔπιθι καὶ στρόβει,
Μηδὲν ὀλίγον ποίει.

Νῦν γὰρ ἔχεται μέσος·

Ὡς ἐὰν νυνὶ μαλάξῃς αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ προσβολῇ,
Δειλὸν εὑρήσεις· ἐγὼ γὰρ τοὺς τρόπους ἐπίσταμαι.

B. Dochmiac Systems.

The dochmiac systems are very frequent in the Greek dramatists. They are the form for the expression of the greatest excitement of the mind, disquiet, terror, anguish. Two dochmii are usually joined, and often there is one over. The dochmii are all closely joined together, whence neither hiatus nor anceps is allowed in the middle of the systems. Both, however, occur under the following conditions:

(1) In interjections: ἓ ἔ, ἰω ἰ, ἰδοὺ ιδού and the like. (2) In addresses, as Eur. Herc. fur. 876.

Σὸν ἄνθος, πόλις, ὁ Διὸς ἔκγονος,

(3) In repeating a word, as Soph. Ant. 1322, 1319. Ἄγετέ μ' ὅτι τάχος, ἄγετέ μ' ἐκποδών.

Ἐγὼ γὰρ σ' ἐγὼ ἔκανον, ὦ μέλεος.

(4) In the change of persons, as Eur. Hippol. 571.

In

Α. Τίνα θροεῖς αὐδάν; τίνα βοᾷς λόγον ;
Ενεπε τις φοβεῖ σε φήμα, γύναι;

Β.

many

of these cases, where the hiatus or anceps occurs,

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