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Trochaic
— ∪ — — — ∪ — : Alc. 227b, Hi. 1149, 1386, IT 865, Hel. †171a† tr ,
IA 294, 1526.
∪∪ ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — : Su. 624~632, El. 153, Herc. 412~429, Tr. 849,
1227, Ion 1476, Hel. 167~179 tr , Ph. 314, 1748, 1750, Or. 1361, IA
247, 264, 1490, 1492, 1515, Phaeth. 100.
∪∪ ∪ — — — ∪ — : El. 480, Ph. 120, 69 Or. 1545.
∪∪ ∪ — ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — : Hel. 1485, Ph. 1567b, Cresph. III. 9.
∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪∪∪ ∪ — : Su. 366~370, Hel. 178 tr , 180 tr , Ph. 1569 tr . 70
— ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — ∪ — : Su. 368a~372a, 1127~1134, Tr. 1093~1111, Hel.
183 tr , 190 tr , 360, Ph. 1561, 1719 tr .
— ∪ — ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — : Ph. 1721 tr .
∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — ∪ — : Hel. 1502, Ba. 579, 603 tr , IA 1495.
— ∪ — ∪ ∪∪ ∪ ∪∪: Su. 623.
∪∪ ∪ — ∪ ∪∪ ∪ ∪∪: Su. 631, Ba. 578, 584, 589.
∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ ∪∪: Ph. 1288~1300, IA 1494.
2.4. Longer trochaic cola
As can be seen from the following list, trochaic lengths of more that two
metra are a feature that is particularly characteristic of Iphigenia at Aulis:
trochaic trimeter
∪∪ ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪: Ba. 602
trochaic metron + lecythion
— ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — : Hel. 342-3, IA 293, 1483-4.
— ∪ — — — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — : IA 281. 71
∪∪ ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — : IA 1335.
∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — : Or. 1469.
69 A further example would be Hyps. fr. 64, 104 in Bond’s text and colometry (ἐμ[όλ]ετ’
ἀκτὰν Λημνίαν), formerly accepted as a lecythion by Diggle (1994: 341). Bond’s analysis of
103-4 as ‘3 δ’ (Hypsipyle, p. 127) was criticised by Parker (1966: 16 n. 1); but since iambic
interpretation of this and the preceding line gives word-end after long anceps in both, Diggle
is probably right to divide (differently from Bond) as dochmiacs in TrGFS (Hyps. 288-9 †δι’
Αἰγαίου† δὲ τίνα πόρον ἐμ[ό]λετ’ | ἀκτὰν Λημνίαν;). Cf. Fr. 759a, 1624-5 Kannicht.
70 There is a further instance of this shape in the dovetailed lecythia at Andr. 484~492, where
Stevens (p. 152) analyses as ia + ba; but a bacchiac with a resolved second syllable is suspicious
(see Dale 2 1968: 74; Diggle 1981: 49; 1994: 314) and in any case his analysis gives one split
resolution at 492 and two at 484. But a dovetailed lecythion is best avoided in Euripides (see
above, n. 64), so Willink’s division of the Andromache passage as ‘cr + ia ∫ 2 ia ∫ ith’ is possibly the
best solution (cf. 2010: 227 n. 17).
71 IA 281 οὓc Ἐπειοὺc : ὠνόμαζε πᾶc λεώc has word-end after long anceps, and should be
added to the examples of word-end after internal long anceps given by Parker (1966: 15-6) (cf.
above, p. 37, n. 54).
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