§622. Mixed Measures
The following verses, combining different rhythmical series, are found in Latin lyrical poetry:—
- Greater Archilochian (Dactylic Tetrameter; Trochaic Tripody):—[figure] sólvĭtŭr | ā´crĭs hĭ|éms grā|tā´ vĭcĕ || vē´rĭs | étFă|vō´nī.—Hor. Od. 1.4.
- Verse consisting of Dactylic Trimeter catalectic (Dactylic Penthemim); Iambic Dimeter:—[figure] scríbĕrĕ | vérsĭcŭ|lō´s || ămō´rĕ pér|culsúm grăvī´.—Hor. Epod. 11.2.
J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.