The Lyric Metres of Euripidean Drama - Universidade de Coimbra

Trochaic
form, with short ancipitia (— ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪), is the only shape which can
be termed well attested, with just under twenty examples; 52 all the other shapes
occur only a few times each (sometimes only once). Long anceps is generally
eschewed in the purely trochaic contexts of the songs listed above — with the
notable exception of Iphigenia’s monody, where the long ancipitia, found at
IA 1307 and 1314, may be an indication that the song was not composed by
Euripides. 53
non-syncopated dimeters
— ∪ — — — ∪ — —: Hec. 1099, IT 875 and Or. 170. 54
— ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — —: Tr. 832~851, Or. 191, IA 282, 55 1314.
— ∪ — — — ∪ — ∪: Tr. 831.
∪∪ ∪ — ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — ∪: Med. 208, Hel. 349, 371, 372, Phaeth. 99.
— ∪ ∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪: Ph. 645.
∪∪ ∪ — ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — —: Su. 76~84.
∪∪ ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪: Hel. 341, 368, Ph. 641~660, 678, Or. 1001, IA
1312.
∪∪ ∪ — — — ∪ — ∪: IA 1307.
— ∪ — ∪ — ∪ ∪∪ ∪: Su. 77 (+ ἒ ἔ), Hel. 367, Ph. 247, IA 1308.
— ∪ ∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — ∪: Ph 664.
— ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — ∪ ∪∪ ∪: Hel. 208~226b, Ph. 258.
∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — ∪ — ∪: Ph. 1065, 1718.
— ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — ∪ — —: Tr. 850.
— ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — ∪ — ∪ : Ph. 640~659, 1732, IA 1303.
— ∪ — ∪ ∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪: Hel. 172~184, †175†~†187†.
∪∪ ∪ — ∪ — ∪ ∪∪ ∪: IA 1309.
— ∪ — ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — ∪: Ph. 1038a, Or. 1002.
∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪: Hel. 173~185, 176, Ph. 1735, Ba. 592, 600,
IA 1286, 1334b, Rh. 675.
52 The dimeter — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ is found at Su. 85 (+ ἓ ἔ), Herc. 384~398, Tr. 1308~1323,
Hel. 205~224, 354, 357a, Ph. 668, 655a~674a, 1019b~1043b, 1062a, Or. 1003, IA 1291, 1292, Cycl. 363.
53 Diggle’s text and colometry smooth away a further instance at 1301, printed by Günther
as καὶ δολιόφρων Κύπριc Ἥρα θ’ (— ∪ ∪∪ — — ∪ — — ), where the resolution before the
long anceps would be unique. On the question of long anceps in Euripides’ late trochaics, cf.
Dale ( 2 1968: 98); Willink (2010: 178); Mastronarde, comm. Ph., p. 333 n. 1.
54 Or. 170 οὐκ ἀφ’ ἡμῶν, οὐκ ἀπ’ οἴκων has word-end after the first long anceps; this is
something that tends to be avoided in Greek lyric, as Parker (1966: 1-16) has shown. On p. 16
of this article, however, she accepts this instance on the ground that ‘the bisecting of the dimeter
produces a metrical parallelism which reinforces the anaphora’. The same explanation applies to
Tr. 831 ἇι μὲν εὐνάc, ἇι δὲ παῖδαc (εὐνάc Seidler: εὐνάτοραc VP).
55 The breuis in longo at Εὔρυτοc δ’ ἄναccε τῶνδε is perhaps slightly odd followed by ‘pa +
cr’, but the rhetorical phrasing seems to demand it; this is, after all, an ἄcτροφον, where the
syntactic and semantic structure of the poetry ought literally to call the tune.
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