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625.
The verses constructed upon the several
Logaoedic form or models are the following: -
1. Glyconic (Second Glyconic, catalectic): -
|| - > | - | - | - || [QUERY]
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- Romae | principis | urbi| um.
- In English: -
- *beginverse
- Forms more real than living man. - Shelley.
- *endverse
- NOTE: In this and most of the succeeding forms the foot
preceding the dactyl is always irrational in Horace, consisting of an
irrational spondee (_>).
2. Aristophanic (First Pherecratic): -
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*beginverse
temperat | ora | fren=is. - Hor. Od. i. 8.
*endverse
NOTE: It is very likely that this was made equal in time to
the preceding [QUERY] protracting the last two syllables: -
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3. Adonic (First Pherecratic, shortened): -
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- Terruit | urbem. - Hor.
- Or perhaps: -
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- 4. Pherecratic
(Second Pherecratic): -
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- cras dónaberis haedo. - Hor.
- Often scanned as follows: -
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- 5. Lesser Asclepiadic
(Second Pherecratic with syncope and First Pherecratic catalectic): -
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- Maecénas atavis edite regibus. -
Hor.
- 6. Greater Asclepiadic
(the same as 5, with a syncopated Logaoedic Dipody interposed): -
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- tu né quaesieris - scire nefas -
quem mihi, quem tibi. - Hor.
- 7. Lesser Sapphic
(Logaoedic Pentapody with dactyl in the third place): -
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- integer vítae scelerisque purus. -
Hor.
- Or in English: -
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- Brilliant hopes, all woven in gorgeous tissues. -
Longfellow.
8. Greater Sapphic
(Third Glyconic; First Pherecratic):
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- te deos óro Sybarin || cur properas
amando. - Hor.
- 9. Lesser Alcaic
(Logaoedic Tetrapody, two irrational dactyls, two trochees): -
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- virginibus puerisque cantó. -
Hor.
- 1.. Greater Alcaic
(Logaoedic Pentapody, catalectic, with anacrusis, and dactyl in the third place, - compare Lesser Sapphic): -
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*beginverse i=ustum et tenacem || propositi virum. - Hor.
*endverse
NOTE: Only the above logaoedic forms are employed by Horace.
11. Phalaecean (Logaoedic Pentapody, with dactyl in the 11. second place): -
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*beginverse quaenam te mala mens, misell=i Rauid=i, agit
praecipitem in meos iambos? - Catull. xl. *endverse
In English: -
*beginverse Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining. -
Longfellow. *endverse
12. Glyconic Pherecratic (Second Glyconic with syncope, and 12. Second Pherecratic): -
|| - [QUERY] | - | - | - || - [QUERY] | - | | - ||
*beginverse o Colonia quae cupis || ponte ludere longo. - Catull.
xvii. *endverse