b. Lesser Asclepiad Verse:by two choriambi and an iambus. at the close of the first choriambus:

:-a spondee as base, followed
Incision takes place

Dōnārēm pătērās || grātăque com modus
Censor + ině měīs || æră sodāl\ibus.

c. Glyconic Verse:-a spondee as base, followed by a choriambus and an iambus:

Intermissă Věnūs | dĭu

Non sum + quālis ĕrām | bŏnæ.

d. Pherecratean Verse:-a spondee as base, followed by a dactyl and a trochee or spondee:

Vis form + ōsă vid|ēri
Multo non sině | rīsu.

3. VERSES with a TROCHAIC BASE.

Sapphic hendecasyllable (line of eleven syllables) :-a trochaic monometer, of which the second foot is always a spondee, as base; followed by a dactyl and two trochees. Casura properly takes place at the first syllable of the dactyl:

Pindarum quis + \quis* stůdět | æmul|āri
Niti tur pen + |nīs* vitrě¦ō dă|tūrus.
The cæsura sometimes occurs after the first short syllable
of the dactyl:

koput

Sivě | quōs El + \ēă* dŏm um rěļducit
Dives et lase + \īvă* těn ētquě | grāta.

4. VERSE with IAMBIC BASE.

Alcaic hendecasyllable (line of eleven syllables) :—an iambic dimeter hypercatalectic as base, followed by a choriambus and an iambus. Incision takes place at the end of the base :

Quālēm ministr + |ūm || fūlminis ã¡\item Cui rex deo + |rūm || rēgnum în ăvēs | văgas. The base being iambic, an iambus might be expected to be at least frequent in the first foot. This, however, is rarely the case, the spondee being generally employed.

Q. HORATI

FLACCI CARMINUM

LIBER QUARTUS.

I.

INTERMISSA, Venus, diu

Rursus bella moves? Parce, precor, precor. Non sum, qualis eram bonæ

Sub regno Cinaræ. Desine, dulcium Mater sæva Cupidinum,

Circa lustra decem flectere mollibus

Jam durum imperiis. Abi,

Quò blandæ juvenum te revocant preces. Tempestiviùs in domum

Pauli, purpureis ales oloribus, Comissabere Maximi,

Si torrere jecur quæris idoneum. Namque et nobilis, et decens,

Et pro sollicitis non tacitus reis, Et centum puer artium,

Late signa feret militiæ tuæ ;

Horace, Book IV.

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Et, quandoque potentior

Largis muneribus riserit æmuli, Albanos prope te lacus

Ponet marmoream sub trabe citreā. Illic plurima naribus

Duces thura, lyræque et Berecyntiæ Delectabere tibiæ

Mixtis carminibus non sine fistulā Illic bis pueri die,

Numen cum teneris virginibus tuum Laudantes, pede candido

In morem Saliûm ter quatient humum. Me nec femina nec puer

Jam nec spes animi credula mutui Nec certare juvat mero,

Nec vincire novis tempora floribus. Sed cur, heu, Ligurine, cur

Manat rara meas lacrima per genas? Cur facunda parum decoro

Inter verba cadit lingua silentio ? Nocturnis ego somniis

Jam captum teneo, jam volucrem sequor Te per gramina Martii

Campi, te per aquas, dure, volubiles.

II.

PINDARUM quisquis studet æmulari,
Iule, ceratis ope Dædalea
Nititur pennis vitreo daturus

Nomina ponto.

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Monte decurrens velut amnis, imbres
Quem super notas aluere ripas,
Fervet immensusque ruit profundo
Pindarus ore;

Laurea donandus Apollinari,
Seu per audaces nova dithyrambos
Verba devolvit numerisque fertur
Lege solutis ;

Seu deos regesve canit, deorum
Sanguinem, per quos cecidere justā
Morte Centauri, cecidit tremendæ
Flamma Chimæræ ;

Sive, quos Elea domum reducit
Palma cœlestes, pugilemve equumve
Dicit et centum potiore signis
Munere donat;

Flebili sponsæ juvenemve raptum
Plorat, et vires animumque moresque
Aureos educit in astra, nigroque
Invidet Orco.

Multa Dircæum levat aura cycnum,
Tendit, Antoni, quoties in altos
Nubium tractus: ego apis Matinæ
More modoque,

Grata carpentis thyma per laborem
Plurimum, circa nemus uvidique
Tiburis ripas operosa parvus
Carmina fingo.

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Concines majore poëta plectro
Cæsarem, quandoque trahet feroces
Per sacrum clivum merită decorus
Fronde Sygambros :

Quo nihil majus meliusve terris
Fata donavere bonique divi,

Nec dabunt, quamvis redeant in aurum
Tempora priscum.

Concines lætosque dies, et Urbis
Publicum ludum super iinpetrato
Fortis Augusti reditu, forumque
Litibus orbum.

Tum moce (si quid loquar audiendum)
Vocis accedet bona pars: et, "O Sol
Pulcher, O laudande!" canam, recepto
Cæsare felix.

Tuque dum procedis, "Io triumphe!"
Non semel dicemus, “Io triumphe !
Civitas omnis, dabimusque divis
Tura benignis.

Te decem tauri totidemque vaccæ,
Me tener solvet vitulus, relictā
Matre qui largis juvenescit herbis
In mea vota,

Fronte curvatos imitatus ignes
Tertium Lunæ referentis ortum,
Quà notam duxit niveus videri,
Cetera fulvus.