Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (4.1885-1886)

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ON GREEK VERSIFICATION IN INSCRIPTIONS.

caesuras, some are distinguished by their frequency. Those which
occur more than ten times are the following :1

— w|v----32 ---I-- 17 1

I---27--I--- 14

2^;

o O I - 'I -
w w _ I__16

I _ w w _ 26

_ I w o _ 15

I w w — 14

I w _ I

A single word forms the first half-verse in 184 (€7rra/«xiei;coo-eTo5s)
and lxxxiii (tiKoaa-evratTeLs).

We note further Sepxeo, not Sepxev, cxiv (Elatea Mac.) and 855
1

(Atalante iii); ocrrea, 183 (Core. Mac); xaWov "-VT\ 856 a prf.
1 1 2

(Hypate Mac); [IIi>0o]kA€??s, 926 (Hermione iii) ; ukovol, 940a
RM (Olymp. Samos v), lxxx (Cedreae iv-iii), 260 (Cyren. iii-ii) ;

\alpav eis. not xt"p£7ie'/ £'s> 781 (Cnid. iii) ; fiopeov, 214 (Rhenaea

1 2 3

iii) ; (.vKXarj, 851 (Rhodes iii).

Augmented forms preferred : /wy/x' to-fr^o-ei/], 220 (Amorg. iv) ;

1 2

fjivrjfJLa. (.(mna-iv. lviii (Amorg. iv) ;2 £ujcra re iKoivwvovv, xliii (Salam. iv).

12 12 3

2. The Second Half. — The forms which occur more than ten
times are these :

_ w

w _ 1 WW -

56

_ I w w

_ 1 w w _

29

_ w

w 1 _ WW -

52

_ w w 1

_ [ w w _

19

_ w

1 w _ 1 WW _

43

_ w w I

— w 1 w _

19

_ w

1 W _ WW _

42

_ 1 w w

— w 1 w _

r5

_ w

I W - w 1 w _

38

_ 1 w w

1 _ WW _

r5

1 In many cases the less common forms are rhythmically equivalent to these,
from the close connexion of words.

2 The verse may possibly be a hexameter.