An analysis of the Greek metres. By J.B. Seale, Volume 1 |
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Page 26 - O cate rerum sator, O principium deorum, Stridula cui limina, cui cardinei tumultus, Cui reserata mugiunt aurea claustra mundi, Tibi vetus ara caluit Aborigineo sacello.
Page 46 - NEC fonte labra prolui caballino, Nee in bicipiti somniasse Parnasso Memini, ut repente sic poeta prodirem : Heliconidasque pallidamque Pirenen Illis remitto, quorum imagines lambunt Hederse sequaces : ipse semipaganus Ad sacra vatum carmen affero nostrum.
Page 23 - Planee, mero, seu te fulgentia signis Castra tenent, seu densa tenebit Tiburis umbra tui.
Page 32 - Choriambus, or any of the discordant feet of four syllables, be found in the same verse with an Ionic foot, the verse is then termed Epi.-i.miic.
Page 1 - Those feet are called isochronous, which consist of equal times ; as the spondee, the dactyl, the anaptest, and the proceleusmatic, one long time being considered equal to two short. METRE. § 303. Metre is an arrangement of syllables and feet according to certain rules.
Page 18 - Nee victa libídine colla Foedis submittat habenis. Etenim licet Indica longe Tellus tua jura tremiscat, Et serviat ultima Thule : Tarnen atrás pellere curas, Miserasque fugare querelas Non po.ssí-, potentia non est.
Page 37 - Catus idem per apertum fugientes agitato Grege cervos jaculan et celer alto latitantem Fruticeto excipere aprum.
Page 32 - Var. 3. The second Pœon is occasionally joined to a second or third Epitrite, so that the two Feet together are equal in time to two Ionic Feet. This is called an...
Page 41 - In anapaestic verse and pœonic, no place is assigned to the pause ; because, since the metres (if rightly constructed) end with a word, the effect of a pause will be produced at the end of each metre. The same may be observed of the Ionic a minor«.