The Lyric Metres of Euripidean Drama - Universidade de Coimbra

Part I - Euripides’ use of lyric metre
44
∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — ∪ — : Hel. 194-5~214.
— ∪ ∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — : IA 1290.
trochaic metron + ithyphallic 72
— ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — — : Ph. 1042~1066.
∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — — : Ph. 1733, 1757 (not Euripidean?).
∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — — : Ph. 1756 (not Euripidean?).
cretic + lecythion
— ∪ — — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — : IA 233~244, 253~265, 277.
cretic + trochaic metron + molossus
∪∪ ∪ — — ∪ — ∪ — — — : IA 301 (not Euripidean).
spondee + lecythion
— — — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — : Hel. 191~211, IA 231~242, 237~248, 238~249,
241~252, 254~266, 255, 263~275, 279, 287, 302, Cycl. 613-4, 622.
— — ∪∪ ∪ — ∪ —∪ — : IA 245, 267, 288.
lecythion + bacchic
Ph. 248~259.
lecythion + cretic
— ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — — ∪ — : Cycl. 617.
— ∪ ∪∪ ∪ — ∪ ∪∪ — ∪ — : IA 1300.
72 This is probably best interpreted as a ‘trochaeo-iambic’ colon; all the instances have
word break after the initial trochaic metron: Ph. 1042 ἁ πτεροῦccα : παρθένοc τιν’ ἀνδρῶν ~
ἁρπαγαῖcι : δαιμόνων τιc ἄτα, 1733 ἄπαγε τὰ πάροc : εὐτυχήματ’ αὐδῶν, 1756 θίαcον ἱερὸν :
ὄρεcιν ἀνεχόρευcα, 1757 χάριν ἀχάριτον : ἐc θεοὺc διδοῦcα.