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denonmoenia|gina||pontearbori-|busvaretoma—Hannibal:324 PROSODY.—METRE. § 164In reading this line with due attention to quantity, we naturally pausewhere the caesura! pause is indicated by the double line, and the wholemovement is graceful and pleasing. Compare now with this, a line inwhich no attention is paid to the caesura, or in which, if one is made, youhave to pause in the middle of a word, and the difference is manifest.Roma||ter-||ruit |impiger||armls.Sometimes the caesura falls after the thesis of the third foot, or the arsisof the fourth. In the last case, a secondary one often occurs in the secondfoot. The pause at the end of the third foot was the least approvedThe following lines are examples of each of these1. Infan- |dum re-jii- J |bes reno-|do- |lorem.2. Prima te- |net, plati-|suque vo- |lat||||fremi-|tuque3. Cui non |dictiis Hy- las puer et La> Delos.| || | |se- cundo.|2. A species of Hexameter is the Priapean. It is divisibleinto two portions of three feet each, of which portions, thefirst begins generally with a trochee, and ends with an amphimacer,and the second begins with a trochee ; as follows,O co- |Ionia|quae ciipis|hidere |longo. Catull.These parts, however, may very well be scanned, the first as a Olyconic,and the second, as a Pherecratic verse, of which see under (V) Choriambicverse.3. Pentameter verse consists of five feet. It is commonlyarranged in two portions or hemistichs, of which the firstcontains two feet, dactyls or spondees, followed by a long syllablewhich ought to end a word ; and the second, two dactylsfollowed by a long syllable ;Maxima mhi-| |Pomaque|thus,16||nascitiir |historl-|ano- |tis||legit ab||Propert.Tibull.Where the first distich does not end a word, or, if there be an elision bySynalcepha or Pchthlipsis, the verse is considered harsh.This verse is commonly used alternately with a hexameter line, acombination which is commonly called Elegiac verse.4. Dactylic tetrameter, of which there are two kinds.1st. Dactylic tetrameter a prior e, called also Alcmanian dactylictetrameter, which consists of the first four feet of 8hexameter line, the fouith being always a dactyl; as,Solvitur |acris hy- |ems gra- ta vice. Hor.|2d. Dactylic tetrameter a poster lore, called also Spondaictetrameter, which consists of the last four feet of a hexameterline ;as,Sic trls- |tea af- |fetus a- |micos. Hor.