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2. Logaoedic Series with double anapaest

a. Anapaesticus duplex simplic, iambicus

b. Anapaesticus duplex duplíc. iambicus

c. Anapaesticus duplex triplic. iambicus

d. Anapaesticus duplex quadruplic. iambicus

3. Logaoedic Series with triple anapaest

a. Anapaesticus triplex simplic. iambicus

b. Anapaesticus triplex duplic. iambicus

4. Logaoedic Series with quadruple anapaest

a. Anapaesticus quadruplex simplic. iambicus

b. Anapaesticus quadruplex duplic. iambicus

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CHAPTER III. – Rhythms whose Ground Foot is five-timed.-

The one and a half or Paeonic kind

A. Falling, Cretic Rhythms.

a. Cretics with rational thesis

1. The Monopody, or the Monometer

2. The Dipody, or the Dimeter

3. The Tripody, or the Trimeter

4. The Tetrapody, or the Tetrameter

5. The Pentapody, or the Pentameter

6. The Hexapody, or the Hexameter

b, Cretics with the irrational thesis,– Dochmius

B. Bacchic Rhythms

1. The Dipody, or the Dimeter .

2. The Tetrapody, or the Tetrameter

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CHAPTER IV.- Rhythms the Ground Foot of which is six-

timed.- The Choriambic.ionic kind

A. Falling Rhythms

a. Choriambs

1. The Monopody, or the Monometer

2. The Dipody, or the Dimeter

3. The Tripody, or the Trimeter

4. The Tetrapody, or the Tetrameter

5. The Pentapody, or the Pentameter

6. The Hexapody, or the Hexameter

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1. The Dipody, or the Dimeter

2. The Tripody, or the Trimeter

3. The Tetrapody, or the Tetrameter

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1. Stichic Verses of the Trochaic-iambic kind

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A. Trochaic Verses

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1. Dimet. troch, with a dimet. cret.

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2. Dimet, troch. with an ithyphallic

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3. Tetram. troch. acat.-Versus octonarius

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4. Tetram, troch. cat.- Versus septenarius or quadratus 156

5. Tetram. troch, claudus, or Hipponacteus, or quadratus

2. Dimet. acat. with an ithyphallic

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3. Dimet. acat, with a tetrapod. troch. cat.

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4. Trimet. acat.

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a. The Trimeter of the Tambographers

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b. The Trimeter of the Greek dramatists

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a. The tragic trimeter

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B. The satyric trimeter

8. The trimeter of the Roman dramatists

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5. The lame Trimeter.— Trimeter claudus, scazon, Hip-

ponacteus, Choliambus, Mimiambus

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6. Tetrameter acatalectus.- Versus Boiscius .

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7. Tetrameter catalecticus.-Versus septenarius

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8. Tetrapodia catalectica

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9. Two tetrapodiae catalecticae

II. Verses of the Dactylic-anapaestic kind, used by the line

A. Dactylic Verses

a, Rational Dactyls

1. Dimeter cat, in disyll.–Versus Adonius

2. Metrum Encomiologicum

3. Metrum prosodiacum

4. Metrum Choerileum

5. Tetr. cat. in disyll. .

6. Tetr. cat. in disyll. with an ithyphallic

7. Versus heroicus

8. Hexameter uslovpos

b. Aeolic and logaoedic verses

1. Trim. cat. in disyll .

2. Trim. acat.

3. Tetram. cat. in disyll.

4. Tetram, acat.

5. Pentam. cat. in disyll. "Erros Alohexóv

6. Phalaeceus hendecasyllabus

7. Dactyl. log. simpl. duplic. troch. cat, with a basis,

and the same acat, with a cretic

B. Anapaestic Verses

a. Rational Anapaests

1. Dimet. cat. in syll.–Paroemiacus

2. Trim. cat. in syll.’Eußatiqlov, Messenicum .

3. Tetram. cat. in syll.–Versus Laconicus.-Versus

Aristophaneus

4. Tetram. acat.

b. Irrational, logaoedic Anapaests

Versus Archebuleus

III. Verses of the one and a half kind, used by the line

A. Cretic Rhythms

1. Tetram. acat.

2. Tetram. cat.

B. Bacchic Rhythms .

Tetram, acat.

IV. Verses of the Choriambic-ionic kind, used by the line

A. Choriambic Rhythms

a. Choriambic series without the anacrusis and basis, with

logaoedic terminations

1. Trim. choriamb.

2. Tetram. choriamb..

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3. Pentam, choriamb...

b. Choriambic series with the anacrusis and logaoedic ter-

minations

1. Monomet. choriamb.

2. Dimet. choriamb.

3. Trim. choriamb.

é. Choriambic series with the basis and logaoedie termi-

nations

1. Monom. choriamb. Sapphicum enneasyllabum

2. Dimet. choriamb. Asclepiadeum I.

3. Trimet. choriamb.

4. Trimet. choriamb. Asclepiadeum I.

5. Trimet. choriamb.

6. Tetram. choriamb. .

Choriambic verses erroneously called polyschematist

1. Epionicum polyschematistum.

2. Metrum Eupolideum

3. Metrum Cratineum

4. Choriambicum polyschematistum

5. Versus Priapeus

B. lonici a majore

1. Trim. cat. in trisyll.- Versus Cleomacheus

2. Tetram. cat. in disyll.- Versus Sotadeus

C. lonici a minore

1. Dimet. acat.—Versus Anacreonteus

2. Dimet. cat.

3. Trimet, acat.

4. Trimet. cat.

5. Tetram, cat.-Galliambus.

CHAPTER II. – Distiche Composition

I. Of the double kind

A. Trochaic Rhythms

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1. Trochaicum.-Metrum Hipponacteum

B. sambic Rhythms.

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1. Trim. iamb. acat.; ithyphallic

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2. Iambicum senarium quaternarium

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3. Trim. iamb. acat.; trim. dact. cat. in syll.

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4. Trim. iamb. acat.; trim. dact. cat. in syll. with dim.

iamb, acat.--Archilochium tertium

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