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iXVl METRES or HORACE.
This species of verse is also called Archilochian dimeter.
The following lines from the Epodes will illustrate the scale :
Epod. Line.
2. 62. Vide\rl prdpl\\rantes\ddmum.
3. 8. Cdn"idl\a trdc\\tavil \ dapSs.
5. 48. Can'id'i\& ro\\dSns pol\licBm.
8. IAMBIC DIMETER HTPEBMETEB.
This measure, also called Archilochian, is the iambic dimeter
(No. 7) with an additional syllable at the end ;
RSde\gU dd II vBros \ tim,o\\rSs. '
Horace frequently uses this species of verse in coojuncfi'dii
with the Alcaic, and always has the third foot a spondee ; ftir
the line, which in the common editions runs thus,
Tyi^lc\ta nOn || Uvl \ rM\\nd,
is more con'ectly read with leni in place of Uvi.
9. ACEFHALOUS IAMBIC DIMETER.
This is the iambic dimeter (No. 7) wanting the first sylla'
ble ; as,
Non I ehur \\ neque mi\rgum.
It may, however, be also regarded as a trochaic dimeter cata-
lectic, and scanned as follows :
Non S[biir n£\\que aure\ilm
though, if we follow the authority of Terentianus (De Metr.,
738), we must consider the first appellation as the more correct
one of the two, since he expressly calls it by this name.
10. SAPPHIC
This verse takes its name from the poetess Sappho, who in-
vented it, and consists of five feet, viz., a trochee, a spondee, a.
dactyl, and two more trochees ; as,
J}tf,ii\U sax\u ag1\ta,tiis |
;
hUmBr.
But in the Greek stanza Sappho sometimes makes the sec-
ond foot a trochee, in which she is imitated by Catullus ; as.
Hat /ij|of dS|^o7r^o(cc, TiCaaopiai re.
Paiica I
nuntl\ate mete pueUte.
Horace, however, uniformly has the spondee in the second
as,