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340 METRE. [368.
2. Trochaic caesura of the fourth foot is very rare, and is only
found under certain conditions, viz.
(1) when the caesura is preceded by an enclitic or short monosyllable
(such as jieV, 8e' } &c.) ; as
as
Kat KV TOVT
0eAoijuu Ato? ye 8i8oVros aptarQai.
(2) when the line ends with a word of four or five syllables;
avrap 6 (JLOVVOS erjv pera TreWe /cao-iyi^jrrjo-t.
TroAAa 8'
ap i-vOa KOL evO' Wvve 1 ! ir&loio.
\
The commonest form of this kind of
caesura (especially
in the
Iliad) is that in which these two alleviations are both present ;
as
&pcrlr aKpiTopvOc, \iyvs Trep eo)z/ dyoprjr?}?.
The first fifteen books of the Iliad contain eleven instances of
trochaic caesura in the fourth foot, of which seven are of this
form.
In II.
9. 394 the MSS. give
HrjXtvs 6r\v eVeira jbtot yvvaiKa CLVTOS.
\
But we should doubtless read, with Aristarchus,
yvvalna ye /uacro-erat airo?.
Similarly we should probably read ra 8e' ^ OVK apa peXXov ovr\(riv
(II. 5. 205, &a), instead of e/uteXXoi; : and conversely 0aAepr/ 8'
fjnaivTO ^aiTJ] (II. 17. 439), and patyal 8' eXeXvvro ipavTuiv (Od.
22. 1 86),
instead of jutaiVero, AeAwro. In Od. 5. 272 we may
treat 6\ff
bvovra as one word in rhythm. But it is not easy to
account for the rhythm in Od. 12. 47 eirt 8' ovar dXetx/rat eratpcoy.
The result of these rules evidently is that there are two chief
breaks or pauses in the verse the caesura in the third foot, and
the diaeresis between the fourth and fifth and that the forbidden
divisions are the diaeresis and caesura which lie nearest to
Thus
these pauses.
Best caesura \> - --
Worst diaeresis J^J .Jw \> w --
Again
Best diaeresis TTOTrot, &c.
Hence the occasional hiatus in this place, as II. 2. 209 fixil> *> s
KrA.., II. I. 333 avrap 6 eyvoo ycnv tvi pe