as Pind. Nem. IX. 5. Πυθῶνος αἰπεινᾶς ὁμοκλάροις ἐπόπταις. The catalectic with the anacrusis : does not differ from the trimet. iamb. acat. The acatalectic tetrameter is found in lyric and dramatic poets in chorusses, without a fixed caesura, as Pind. Isthm. III. 1, 25. Εἴ τις ἀνδρῶν εὐτυχήσαις ἢ σὺν εὐδόξοις αέθλοις, Τοὶ μὲν ὦν Θήβαισι τιμάεντες ἀρχῆθεν λέγονται. ων With the anacrusis it becomes the tetrameter iamb. hypercat., so called : Οὔπω γένυσι φαίνων τέρειναν ματέρ' οινάνθας οπώραν. The Romans made frequent use of the catalectic tetrameter in the dialogue of the drama; versus octonarius. The catalectic tetrameter was used by lyric and dramatic poets in the dialogue as well as the melic part of the drama. As a lyric verse it has no fixed caesura, as Soph. Trach. 132. Νὺξ βροτοῖσιν οὔτε Κῆρες, οὔτε πλοῦτος, ἀλλ ̓ ἄφαρ. Pind. Isthm. III. Epod. 5. As a verse of the dialogue it has usually the diaeresis in the middle. The Romans, who, likewise, use it frequently in the drama, call it versus septenarius. By the inversion of the last foot, the catalectic tetrameter becomes the tetrameter troch. claudus, or Hipponacteus The former does not appear to have been used, the latter is found as the closing rhythm in Pindar, Nem. VIII. Ep. 7. Σὺν Θεῷ γάρ τοι φυτευθεὶς ὄλβος ἀνθρώποισι παρμονώτερος. Isthm. III. Epod. 6. Αἰὼν δὲ κυλινδομέναις ἡμέραις ἄλλ ̓ ἄλλοτ ̓ ἐξάλλαξεν· ἄτρωτοί γε μὰν παῖδες θεῶν. Callimachus used this verse by the line; the grammarians call it ὑπέρμετρον. If longer combinations of the tripody are found, they are to be considered as trochaic systems. (3) The Tripody.-Tripodia trochaica. The acatalectic tripody has the name Ithyphallicus as a form of certain wanton songs, which were sung during the exhibition of the ivupallos, at the Dionysiac festival. The verse was then used, joined as an epode with iambic trime ters. The ithyphallic is particularly appropriate to the close of other rhythms, less to be used as an independent verse. Resolutions frequently take place, more rarely in the last foot. Examples: Pind. Olymp. V. 2, 3, 4, 5, where the ithyphallic closes each verse. Soph. Oed. Tyr. 472. Κῆρες ἀναπλάκητοι. Archilochus and other writers of epodes frequently use the ithyphallic in distich composition, and in asynartete verses as the closing rhythm. The ithyphallic occurs sometimes in the beginning, or middle, as Pind. Nem. III. 2. podia iamb. cat. If a second ithyphallic follows this rhythm, without an anacrusis, the scheme of the Saturnine verse en which the Romans used with great license. Sometimes the basis is prefixed to the ithyphallic, as Aesch. Agam. 367, 368. X-/ Διὸς πλαγὰν ἔχουσιν εἰπεῖν. or an iambic dipody: very frequently, as Aesch Agam. 192, 193. Πνοαὶ δ ̓ ἀπὸ Στρυμόνος μολοῦσαι Κακόσχολοι, νήστιδες, δύσορμοι. The catalectic tripody, called monometer trochaic. hypercat. also serves frequently as a conclusion of lyrical rhythms: as Eur. Elec. 865. Καλλίνικον ᾠδὴν ἐμῷ χορῷ. 513 With the anacrusis it is the tripodia iambica acat. Sometimes also it takes the basis, as Pind. Pyth. VIII. 6. 13. Τὺ γὰρ τὸ μαλθακὸν ἔρξαι τε καὶ παθεῖν ὁμῶς. The former in the lyric poets, as Pind. Olymp. I. 7. Μηδ' Ὀλυμπίας ἀγῶνα φέρτερον αὐδάσομεν. With the anacrusis it is the Pentapodia iamb. cat. The catalectic tetrapody is still more frequently found. It was called by the ancients ληκύθιον. It appears sometimes singly, as Aeschyl. Agam. 1017. Νῆστιν ὤλεσεν νόσον, sometimes several times repeated, as Aesch. Eum. 331. Ὕμνος ἐξ Ἐρινύων Δέσμιος φρενῶν, ἀφορμικτος, αὐονὰ βροτοῖς. sometimes connected with other rhythms, for example, with an iamb prefixed, Pind. Olymp. Ι. 11. Μάχαιραν Ιέρωνος ἑστίαν, with the basis Eur. Iph. Aul. 238. X / Πεντήκοντα ναυσὶ θουρίαις. With the anacrusis it is the Tetrapodia iamb. acat. (5) The Pentapody.-Pentapodia trochaica. Both more rare; the former, for example, Aesch. Agam. 240. Ἔβαλλ ̓ ἕκαστον θυτήρων ἀπ ̓ ὄμματος βέλει φιλοίκτῳ. the latter, Pind. Olymp. IV. Epod. 8. Φύονται δὲ καὶ νέοις ἐν ἀνδράσιν. (6) The Hexapody.-Hexapodia trochaica. Both seldom occur; the former, as Pind. Olymp. I. 6. Ἄλλο θαλπνότερον ἐν ἡμέρᾳ φαεννὸν ἄστρον ἐρήμας δι' αἰθέρος, the latter, Pind. Pyth. II. 1. Μεγαλοπόλιες ὦ Συράκοσαι βαθυπολέμου. |