Ἱππεύσαντος, ἐν οὐρανῷ (1) ἀντ. Πόλεος ἐκπροκριθεῖσ ̓ ἐμᾶς (1) Κλεινών Αγηνοριδᾶν ἐπῳδ. Ὦ λάμπουσα πέτρα πυρὸς (1) Βακχείων, Διονύσου Οἴνα θ', ἃ καθαμέριον (2) Στάζεις τὸν πολύκαρπον Οινάνθας ἱεῖσα βότρυν, (2) Νιφόβολόν τ' ὄρος ἱερὸν, εί- (1) λίσσων ἀθανάτας θεοῦ (1) Χορὸς γενοίμαν ἄφοβος (2) Παρὰ μεσόμφαλα γύαλα Φοί- (1) βου Δίρκαν προλιπούσα. Arist. Ran. 1320-1328. Οινάνθας γάνος ἀμπέλου, (1) Ὁρᾶς τὸν πόδα τοῦτον ;—ὁρῶ.—(3) Τί δαί; τοῦτον ὁρᾷς ;όρω.(1) C. Ionic Systems. Ionici a minore are combined into systems. The ionic systems are divided into pure and polyschematist. (a) Pure Ionic Systems. They were used by the Aeolian lyric poets, and by the tragedians. Among the lyric poets, Alcaeus had such systems. Hephaestion cites as an example: Ἐμὲ δειλὰν, ἐμὲ πασᾶν κακοτάτων πεδέχοισαν, and remarks that every ten feet should have formed a strophe; hence such a system is called a Decapodia Alcaica. Of this kind is also Horat. Carm. III. 12. It consists of four such systems, which form as many strophes : Miserarum est neque amori dare ludum neque dulci Patruae verbera linguae. Tibi qualum Cythereae puer ales, tibi telas Operosaeque Minervae studium aufert, Neobule, Simul unctos Tiberinis humeros lavit in undis, Catus idem per apertum fugientes agitato Grege cervos jaculari, et celer alto latitantem Fruticeto excipere aprum. The Greek tragedians had similar systems, as Aesch. Pers. 65-70; 73-78. στρ. Πεπέρακεν μὲν ὁ περσέπτολις ἤδη βασίλειος Στρατὸς εἰς ἀντίπορον γείτονα χώραν ; λινοδέσμῳ ἀντ. Πολυάνδρου δ' Ασίας θούριος ἄρχων ἐπὶ πᾶσαν Χθόνα ποιμανόριον θεῖον ἐλαύνει διχόθην, πεζονόμοις ἔκ τε θαλάσσης. Euripides sometimes resolves the arsis and contracts the thesis, as Eur. Bacch. 78-82; 95—99. στρ. Τά τε ματρὸς μεγάλας ὄργια Κυβέλας θεμιτεύων, ἀντ. Λοχίοις δ ̓ αὐτίκα νιν δέξατο θαλάμοις Κρονίδας Ζεύς Κατὰ μηρῷ δὲ καλύψας χρυσέαισιν συνερείδει Περόναις κρυπτὸν ἀφ' Ἥρας. (b) Polyschematist Ionic Systems. In these systems pure forms alternate with polyschematist and broken ones. Commonly two ionics belong together. In antistrophic poems, sometimes different forms correspond to each other. Such systems often begin or end with other rhythms. Many Anacreontic poems may be regarded as such systems. The dramatists also used these systems, as Aesch. Prometh. 397-405; 406-414. στρ. Στένω σε τῆς οὐλομένας τύχας, Προμηθεῦ, βομένα ῥέος παρειάν Νοτίοις ἔτεγξα παγαῖς Αμέγαρτα γὰρ τάδε Ζεὺς Ἰδίοις νόμοις κρατύνων Ὑπερήφανον θεοῖσιν Τοῖσι πάρος δείκνυσιν αἰχμάν. ἀντ. Πρόπασα δ ̓ ἤδη στονόεν λέλακε χώρα, Μεγαλοσχήμονά τ' ἀρχαι οπρεπή . --- στένουσι τὰν σαν Ξυνομαιμόνων τε τιμάν, Μεγαλοστόνοισι σοῖσι Πήμασι συγκάμνουσι θνητοί. Eur. Cyclop. 495-502; 503-510; 511–518. στρ. ά Μακάριος ὃς εὐιάζει Βοτρύων φίλαισι πηγαῖς Μυρόχριστος λιπαρὸν βό στρυχον, αὐδᾷ δὲ, θύραν τίς οἴξει μοι; στρ. β' Παπαπᾶ, πλέως μὲν οἴνου, Σκάφος ὁλκὰς ὡς γεμισθεὶς Φέρε μοι, ξείνε, φέρ' ἀσκὸν ἔνδος μοι. στρ. γ ́ Καλὸν ὄμμασιν δεδορκώς Καλὸν ἐκπερᾷ μελάθων. – φιλεῖ τις ἡμᾶς. Λύχνα δ ̓ ἀμμένει δάϊα σὸν Arist. Vesp. 291-298; 305-311. Μὰ Δί', ἀλλ ̓ ἰσχάδας, ὦ παπ- Μὰ Δί', εἰ κρέμαισθέ γ' ὑμεῖς. ἀντ. "Αγε νῦν, ὦ πάτερ, ἢν μὴ γε δεῖπνον ἔσται. CHAPTER IV. STROPHIC COMPOSITION. By strophes we understand a combination of verses, which are repeated in the same order (P. 1. c. 9. p. 35). The smallest strophe is the distich. Also systems may at the same time be regarded as strophes. But we treat here of the strophes properly so called, as they were used by the Ionian and Aeolian poets and among the Romans, especially by Catullus and Horace. They differ from the verses used by the line in that they consist of more than two, commonly of four verses; and from system, in that they are not necessarily required to be composed of similar parts, and when this is the case their parts do not intimately cohere; hence at the end of every principal part or verse, the hiatus and the anceps are unconditionally allowed. Every strophe forms a whole; hence the rhythms of which it is composed must have a common character, and itself a satisfactory close. All strophes are not alike perfect. The Aeolian structure of the strophe attained the highest perfection in the Alcaic strophe. The bucolic songs in some of the poems of Theocritus (Idyll. I. 64—145; II. 17—135) and those of Virgil, (Ecl. VIII. 17-61, 64-109); in Catullus Carm. LXII and LXIV, |