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

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ON GREEK VERSIFICATION IN INSCRIPTIONS.

The trimeters which form distichs with hexameters in cxvn are
strict; those in 211 have one resolution, not transcending tragic
limits.

The resolutions of thesis are these :

€7rt j/eo-. 783 (Cnid. iv-ii). -Tat 7rap<:Spos. 783 (Cnid. iv-ii).

1 3

-01 'avtOev. 746 (Olymp. Arg. v). -to. tov 'Epamo-Oevov, 211 (Syr. iii).

2 4 5 0

-ru) kotvXov, 1130 (vase vi). 'Ao-kAtittioSotou, 246 (Bith. Mac.)..

3 4 5 0

-vos yeyora, 93 (Att. IV-iii). Aapif/ayopeu), lvi (AmorgOS vi).1

3 5 0

Disyllabic arses occur as follows :

'A<£po8n-cu, 783 (Cnid. iv-ii). At/ri tu>v, 746 (Olymp. Arg. v).

2 .4

KarWr/Ke. CXXXVII (Cypriote). TrevTaeTovs, 246 (Bith. Mac).

2 3 4

The chief caesura is the ordinary one, after the second trochee,
in thirty-seven verses, the whole number of verses being fifty-three.
Porson's rule of the fifth foot is nowhere violated.

2. Trochaic Tetrameter. — There are twenty-one verses, sixteen
of which have the customary caesura after the fourth foot. Four
have the break in the middle of the fourth foot, one in the middle
of the fifth. — The inscription 790 and the trochaic part of 79 follow
strict rules; 783 and xcviij have the following freedoms :

Resolution of Thesis :

ttuXXv €7T-, xcvn, (Epid. iii).
1

'o v(jp.os, XCVIl!.
1

'Aya0o'Su>pos. 783 (Cnid. iv-ii).

l&vyporepos. xcvilj.

■j 3

"ov 'a.7re8a£a, XCVII^

KpLTayopa'S, 783.

3 4

aevoKpiros, 783.

3 4

apio-TOKpariav, XCVIIj.

3 4

tlvSpaydftttS, XCVIIj.

' 7 8 ■•■v'.V.V.

On Kai eAtyov. xcvilj, see p. 126.

1 But on this see p. 103.