APPENDIX III. INDEX OF METRES USED IN THE ODES AND EPODEs. § 1. Asclepiads. Under this system are included five systems, composed of the following verses singly or in various combinations : Tu ne quaesieris scire nefas quem mihi quem tibi. In these two verses the caesura is carefully kept, in a after the first, in ẞ after the second choriambus. The only exception in Horace's writings is Od. 4. 8. 17 'Non incendia Carthaginis impiae.' In I. 18. 16 and 2. 12. 25 the preposition gives a quasi caesura. y. The Glyconic Nil mortalibus ardui est. In two instances, in Od. 1. 15. 24 and 36, Horace returns to the use of Catullus, and has a trochee as the 'basis,' 'Teucer et Sthenelus sciens,' 'Ignis Iliacas domos.' 8. The Pherecratic Grato Pyrrha sub antro. Asclepiad I. employs a alone, Od. 1. 1, 3. 30, 4. 8. II. employs ẞ alone, Od. 1. 11, 18, 4. 10. III. consists of couplets of a and y, Od. 1. 3, 13, 19, 36, 3. 9, 15, 19, 24, 25, 28, 4. 1, 3. Asclepiad IV. consists of four-line stanzas, 3 a +y, Od. 1. 6, 15, V. consists of four-line stanzas, 2 a+8+y, Od. 1. 5, 14, 21, 23, 3. 7, 13, 4. 13. § 2. The Alcaic stanza is found in 37 Odes :- 2. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20. It is obvious that we have here variations of two movements; Alcaeus had admitted a spondee in the place of the second The division of the two halves of the line is marked by which did not by their accent counteract that natural sameness There is no synaphea between the verses of the stanza, but analogous licence taken in the Asclepiad metre in 4. I. 35, and § 3. The Sapphic stanza is found in twenty-five Odes :- 2. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 16; 3. 8, 11, 14, 18, 20, 22, 27; 4. 2, 6, II; and in the Carm. Sec. It employs two kinds of verse, the lesser Sapphic, which is and the Adonic- The materials of the rhythm in this are the same as in the before the dactyl, φαίνεταί μοι κῆνος ἴσος θεοῖσιν, ‘Ille mi par esse deo videtur.' The lengthening of the short syllable in 2. 6. 14, 'Angulus ridet, ubi non Hymetto,' is perhaps a trace of the feeling that, as the first syllable of the dactyl, it had the metrical accent upon it. The caesura falls commonly, in the first three Books, after the fifth syllable, 'Iam satis terris,' though it is found, from time to time, after the sixth, 'Quem virum aut heroa.' In the Carm. Sec. and the Fourth Book, Horace returns in this point to the use of Catullus and the Greek, and employs the second caesura frequently. In either the three Sapphic Odes of Book Four together, or in the Carm. Sec. alone, there are twice as many instances of it as in the twenty-one Odes of the earlier Books. There is no synaphea, but hypermetric syllables are occasionally elided at the end of all the first three verses of the stanza (2. 2. 18, 2. 16. 34, 4. 2. 22, 23, C. S. 47). By Sappho the Adonic was treated as if it scanned continuously with the verse before, and this use is preserved in Horace to some extent, a word being at times divided between them (1. 2. 19, I. 25. 11, 2. 16. 7). On the other hand, we find a hiatus at times, as in I. 2. 47 'Neve te nostris vitiis iniquum Ocior aura.' § 4. Iambic metres. Of these two occur in Horace : (1) The common Senarius or Iambic Trimeter (for the name see Ars Poet. 252) in Epod. 17. (2) Couplets of the Senarius and an Iambic Dimeter in Epod. 1-10. Horace does not observe the law of the Greek Tragic Senarius in respect of a short syllable before a final cretic; see e.g. Epod. I. 27 and 29. Three instances occur of an apparent anapaest in the fifth place: Epod. 2. 35 'laqueo,' 5. 79 'inferius,' 11. 23 'mulierculam'; but Meineke rightly explained them as instances of synizesis, or using e and i as semivowels, after the analogy of 'aurea' in Virg. Aen. 1. 698, and of 'consilium' and 'prin § 5. These metres account for 97 out of the 104 Odes (in- Of the remaining metres, one or at the most two or three 5. Alcmanium, Od. 1. 7 and 28, and Epod. 12. It is in couplets consisting of the common Dactylic Hex- 1 6. The couplets named from Archilochus. Archilochium Imum, Od. 4. 7. The common Dactylic Hexameter, followed by a Dactylic - Archilochium IIum, Epod. 13. The Dactylic Hexameter, followed by an asynartete1 verse Archilochium IIIium, Epod. II. A common Iambic Trimeter, followed by a verse, also Archilochium IVtum, Od. 1. 4. (a) A verse called Archilochius Major, consisting of a (B) An Iambic Trimeter Catalectic. ȧovváprηros, the term used for a verse of which the two parts are |