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§627. Index to the Metres of Horace

Other lyric poets use other combinations of the abovementioned verses:—

a. Glyconics with one Pherecratic (both imperfect):—

  • Dī´ā|naé sŭmŭs | ín fĭdē´
  • pū´el|l ae ét pŭĕ|rī íntĕgrī´:
  • Dī´ā|nám, pŭĕ|rī íntĕgrī´
  • pŭ´el|laéquĕ că|nā´|mŭ´s.—Catull. xxxiv.

b. Sapphics, in a series of single lines, closing with an Adonic:—

  • Án mă|gís dī|rī´ trĕmŭ|ē´rĕ |Mā´nēs
  • Hércŭ|lem? ét vī|súm cănĭs | ī´nfĕ|rō´rŭm
  • fū´gĭt | ábrup|tī´s trĕpĭ|dús că|tē´nīs?
  • fállĭ|múr: lae|tē´ vĕnĭt | éccĕ | vúltū,
  • quém tŭ|lít Poe|ā´s; hŭmĕ|rísquĕ | tē´lă
  • géstăt | ét nō|tā´s pŏpŭ|lī´s phă|rétrās
  • Hércŭlĭs | hē´rēs.—Sen. Herc. Oet. 1600-1606.

c. Sapphics followed by Glyconics, of indefinite number (id. Herc. Fur. 830-874, 875-894).

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.