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DIFFERENT KINDS OF VERSE.
Lesser Alcaic, consists of two dactyls and a trochaic
metre ; as,
Flumlna | constite-|rInt a-|cuto. Hor.
This, together with two Greater Alcaics (24) and one
Iambic Dimeter Hypermeter (19), constitutes the cele-
brated Alcaic Stanza of Horace ; and to which he was
so partial as to compose no fewer than thirty-seven of
his exquisite odes, in this metre.
SCALE OF THE ALCAIC STANZA.
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Odi|profa-|num||vulgus et|arceo :
Fave-|te linjguis :||carmina|non prius.
Audi-|ta Mu-|sarum|sacer-|dos,
Vlrgini-|bus pue- [risque | canto. Hor.
Two other kinds of Compound verse would appear to
be used by Boethius, iv. 5 ; -- the one consisting of an
Adonic (3), preceded by a trochaic metre and a sellable;
the other also of an Adonic, preceded by an iambic metre
and a syllable ; the first member of each admitting the
usual variations (25, 14) ; as,
Siquis|Arctu-|(ri||sidera|nescit
Propin-|qua sum-||mo||cardine|labi.
Carey followed by Anthon and other eminent Prosodians,
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? RHYMING- VERSIFICATION. Ill
speaks of these, as varieties of Phalcecian Pentameter, --
or according to our classification -- of the Alcmanian Te-
trameter Hypercatalectic (10) ; but the fact, that Boethius,
throughout the whole of this poem, has regularly used
the Trochai'co-Dactylic and the lambico-Dactylic alter-
nately, with scarcely a departure from the Trochaic law
(25) in the one, or from the Iambic law (14) in the other,
-- forms a weighty objection to this view of the subject.
RHYMING VERSIFICATION.
\CT The following hymn, written by Pope Damasus
about the middle of the fourth century, is given as a liter-
ary curiosity ; not only as affording one of the earliest
specimens of rhyming versification so prevalent for many
ages afterwards, but also as evidence of the method
of reading verse then customary among the Eornans.
Being written anterior to the decline of the Latin lan-
guage and while it was yet a living tongue, by one of the
most accomplished scholars of his age, it demonstrates
beyond contradiction, that quantity not accent was re-
garded as the only safe guide in reading or recitation :
because, from the structure of the hymn, it is evident, the
Pope intended his verses to rhyme. Now this they
never will do unless read with the nicest attention to
quantity in the manner following: viz. -- let the first
syllable of every line or verse be separated or pointed off,
and let the remaining syllables be read and pronounced
as Anapaests ; laying a stress on every third syllable ;
particularly on the final long ones, and we shall have as
perfect rhyme as can be desired : thus --
Mar-|tyris ec|ce diesJAgath. se,
Vir-|ginis e|micat ex|imue;
Christus earn sibi qua sociat,
Et diadema duplex decorat.
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? 112 RHYMTNG VERSIFICATION.
Stirpe decens, elegans specie,
Sed magis actibus atque fide,
Terrea prospera nil reputans,
Jussa Dei sibi corde ligans ;
Fortior haec trucibusque viris,
Exposuit sua membra flagris.
Pectore quam fuerit valido,
Torta mamilla docet patulo.
Deliciae cui' career erat ;
Pastor ovem Petrus hanc recreat.
Laetior inde, magisque flagrans,
Cuncta flagella cucurrit ovans.
Ethnica turba, rogum fugieTW,*
Hujus et ipsa meretur opem;*
Quos fidei titulus decorat,
His Venerem magis ipsa premat.
Jam renitens, quasi sponsa, polo,
Pro misero rogito Damaso.
Sic tua festa coli faciat,
Se celebrantibus ut faveat.
* The possibility if not the probability of making opem rhyme with fugien*
is plausibly argued by Carey. See his Latin Prosody made Easy, in loc.
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CONTAINING
Exercises on the Rides of Quantity, Figures of Prosody,
and Different Species of Verse,
FOR GENERAL RECAPITULATION.
Tertia post illas successit aenca proles. Ovid.
Omnia jam f 'tent, fieri quas posse negabam. Id.
Nam, simul ac species patefacta est verna diei. Lucret.
Morbus ut indicat, et gclidax stringor aqudi. Id.
TJnius ob noxam, et furias Ajacis Oilei. Virgil.
Navibus, infandum ! amissis, unius ob iram. Id.
Exercet Diana choros, quam mille secutae. Id.
Ira pharetratae fertur satiata Diance. Ovid.
Quam nosjtro illijus lajbatur | pectore | vultus. Virgil.
Inter cunctantes cecidit moribund a ministros. Virgil.
Pyrrhumque, et ingentem cecidit. (19. ) Horace'
Pan deus Arcadiae venit, quern vidimus ipsi. Virgil.
. . Visa mihi ante oculos, et nbta major imago. Id.
Haec ubi dicta dedit portis sese extulit in gens. Virgil.
. . Demersa exitio. Diffidit urbium. (32. ) Horace,
Nam ccelo terras, et terris abscidit* undas. Ovid.
Matre dea monstrante viam, data fata secutus. Virg.
Cornua velatdrum obvertimus antenndrum. Id.
Insignem pietdte virum tot adire labores . . . Id.
? . . . iEolus, et clauso ventorum carcere regnet. Id.
* But abscidi, from abs and c ado, is long.
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? 114 ^ SUPPLEMENT.
Claudite jam rivos pueri, sat prata biberunt. Id.
. . . . Alitibusque jaces, nee te in tua funera mater. Id.
Jam nunc mindci murmure cornuum. . . . (24. ) Horace.
Ipsi in defossis specubus secura sub aha. Virgil.
Et gener auxilium Priamo Phrygihisque ferebat. Id.
Et Laberi mimos ut pulchra poemdta mirer. Horace.
Et salts occultum referunt in lacte saporem. Virgil.
Ecce Dionsei processit Casaris astrum. Id.
Ille, datis vddibus, ruri qui extractus in urbem est. . . Hor.
Nigranti picea, trdbibusque obscurus acernis. Virgil.
Hie Lelegas Carasque, sagittiferosque Gelonos. Id.
Flumina jam lactis, jam flumina nectdris ibant. Ovid.
. . . . Exspirant acrem pa? idces, absinthia tetra. . . . Lucret.
Armatam fdcibus matrem et serpentibus atris. Virgil.
Ut canis in vacuo lepbrem cum Gallicus arvo. Oviq].
(Edipodas facito Telegonasque voces. (9. ) Id.
Munera porta ntes, eborisque aurique talenta. Virgil.
Multa super Priamo rogitans, super Hectbre multa. Id.
Curculio, atque inbpi metuens formica senectse. Id.
Eoasque acies, et nigri Memnbnis arma. Id.
Eripuit, geminique tulit Chirbnis in antrum. Ovid.
. . . Aut Helicen jubeo, strictumque Oribnis ensem. Id.
Armatumque auro circumspicit Oriona. Virgil.
Immembres socii vasti Cyclopis in antro. Id.
Mancipiis locuples eget sens Cappadocum rex. Horace.
Ingentem manibus tollit cratera duobus. Ovid.
Ingens argentem, Dodonseosque lebetas. Virgil.
. . . Junonis, gelidumque Anienem, et roscida rivis. . . Id.
Non ulli pastos illis egere diebus. Id.
Aut impacatos a tergo horrebit Iberos. Id.
Jupiter antiqui contraxit tempora veris. Ovid.
iEquatse spirant aurae, datur hora quieti. Virgil.
Ascanium surgentem, et spes hmredis liili. Id.
Nee de plebe deo, sed qui ccelestia magno . . . Ovid.
. . . Regis Romani ; primus qui le gibus urbem. . . . Virg.
Fluminibus vertit vervecum lana colorem. Friscian.
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Tollere consuetas audent delphines in auras. Ovid.
Jam jam contingit summum radice flagelltim. Catullus.
Dextera, quae Ditis magni sub moenia tendit. Virgil.
Tractavit calicem manibus dum furta ligurit. Horace.
Hinc sinus est longus Cilicum, qui vergit ad ortus. Prise.
Moenia conspicio, atque ad verso fornice portas. Virgil.
Florentem cytisum, et saUces carpetis amaras. Id.
Nee spatio distant Nesidum littora longo. Priscian.
Paludis in secreta veniet latibula. (17. ) Phcedrus.
Ambiguam tellure nova Salamina futuram. Horace.
Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem. Virgil.
Nam Ligurum populos, et magnas rexerat urbes. Ovid.
Talis Amyclaei domitus Pollucis habenis. Virgil.
Cum faciam vitula pro fru gibus, ipse venito. Id.
Trachyna video ; quis mihi terras dedit. (17. ) Seneca.
Halcyone Ceyca movet ; Ceycis in ore . . . . Ovid.
Sive Erycis fines regemque optatis Acesten. Virgil.
. . . Conserimus, multos Danaum demittimus Oreo. Id.
Fudimus, insidiis, totaque agitdvimus urbe. Id.
Caeca sequebatur, totumque incauta per agmen . . . . Id.
Lac facitbte bibat, nostraque sub arbore ludat. Ovid.
. . . Scripturus ; neque te ut miretur turba labores. Hor.
Solulus omni fcenore. (20. ) Id.
Hoc erat, hoc votis inquit quod ssepe petivi. Virgil.
Sed quamvis formae nunquam mihi fama petita est. Ovid.
Nee tamen, et cuncti miserum servare velltis. Id.
Nee miserae prodesse in tali tempore quibat. Lucretius.
Videritis Stellas illic ubi circulus axem . . . . Ovid.
Dein cum millia multa fecerimus. (29. ) Catullus.
. . . Limina portarum, nee spes opis ulla ddbatur. Virg.
Troja per undosum peter etur classibus aequor. Virgil.
Sanguine foedantum quos ipse sacraverat ignes. Id.
Carmina turn melius, cum venerit ipse canemus. Id.
Si modo fert animus, gradtre, et scitabere ab ipso. Ovid.
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? 1 16 SUPPLEMENT,
" Noris nos" inquit; docti sumus. " Hie ego, " Pluris. "
Horace.
Dextera diriguit, nee citra, mota nee ultra. . Ovid.
Sed tamen iste deus qui sit da Tityre nobis. Virgil.
. . . Leniit, et tacita refluens itd substitit, unda . . . Vir.
Solvite corde metum Teucri, secludite curas. Virgil.
Moly vocant superi ; nigra radice tenetur. Ovid.
Nescee Spioque, Thaliaque, Cymodoceque. Virgil.
Pro re pauca loquar. Nee ego hanc abscondere furto . . . Id.
Vos Tempe totidem tollite laudibus (32. ) Horace.
Consiliis pare, quse nunc pulcherrima Nantes. . . . Virgil.
Me miserum ! ne prona cadas, indignave lsedi. Ovid.
Certe sive mihi Phyllis, sive esset Amyntas . . . Virgil.
Non bene coelestes impia dextra colit. (9. ) Ovid.
Tecta superne timent, metuunt inferne cavernas. . . .
Lucretius.
Vidi Virgineas intumuisse genas. (9. ) Ovid.
Vultu quo coelum tempestatesque serenat. Virgil.
cru delis Alexi, nihil mea carmina curas. Virgil.
Sicutz summarum summa est seterna, neque extra. . . .
Lucretius. \
Est mihi, sitque precor, flavas tutela Minervse.