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. 4.||scele-|risquelerepurus.:;322 PROSODY.—METRE. § 164The caesura commonly takes place at the fifth half foot.5. Different varieties of this metre are denominated asfollows :1st.Se?iaria?i, or Trimeter acatalectie, used in tragedy and comedy.2d. Archilochian, or Trimeter cataleetic.3d. Archilochian, or Dimeter hypermeter.4th. Anacreontic, or Dimeter cataleetic.5th. Galliambus, or Dimeter cataleetic, double ; i. e. two verses in on«line.6th. Hipponactic, or Tetrameter cataleetic.7th. Choliambus, or Trimeter Acatalectie. This is called, also, Scazonand Hipponactic trimeter, and has a spondee in the sixth place,and generally an iambus in the fifth.8th.Octonarius, or Tetrameter acatalectie, called also quadratics.9th. Acephalous, or Dimeter, wanting the first syllable of the first footThis may be resolved into Trochaic dimeter cataleetic.860.—II.TROCHAIC METRE.1. A pure trochaic line consists of trochees only. These,h wever, are but seldom used. An acephalous trochaic becilies an iambic line ; and an Acephalous iambic becomes atrchaic line.i. A mixed trochaic line admits a spondee, a dactyl, ananapaest, and sometimes a proceleusmatic in even places, i. e.in che 2d, 4th, 6th, &c. But in the odd places, a trochee, or atri orach, and in the last place, a trochee only.3. This verse may be used in all varieties, from the Monometerhypercatalectic (two trochees and one syllable) to thetetrameter, or octonarius cataleetic. The varieties most usedby the Latin poets, are,1st. The Trochaic tetrameter cataleetic, rarely pure2d. The Sapphic, consisting of five feet, viz. : a trochee, aspondee, a dactyl, and two trockees. It has the csesuralpause after the fifth half foot ; thus,Lite-|gervi- | toe.|Hon.3d. The Phalcecian, or Phaleucian, consisting of five feetviz. : a spondee, a dactyl, and three trochees ; thus,rTon est yivere' |sed va-||vita. Majrt.This verse neither requires nor rejects a caesura.4th. The Trochaic dimeter cataleetic, or Acephalous iambicdimeter. See I. 9th.