CONTENTS Xlll PAOC Apocryphal Gospels and Acts 226 Their influence in the Middle Ages 230 UL MBDiAVALunfo OF Latin Prose and Forms of Composition 231 CHAPTER IX CHRISTIAN POETRY L Classic Metrb Ain> Christian Emotion Metrical qualities of Greek verse 236 Characteristics of Greek emotion 236 Hexameter and elegiac 237 Lyric metres ; the dramatists 240 Metrical decadence 242 Metre and emotion with the classic Latin poets . . 243 Christian emotion unsuited to classic metres . . . 244 The mediaeval hymn 246 n. Greek Christian Poetrt The first Christian songs 247 The Oracula Sihyllina 260 The hymn ascribed to Clement of Alexandria . . . 263 The hymn of Methodius 266 Metrical hymns of Synesius and Gregory Nazianzen . . 266 The origin and rise of Greek accentual hymns . 267 Romanos 260 m. Eahlt Latin Christian Poetrt Relations to the Greek 262 The change from quantity to accent in Latin hymns . 263 I*rudentius and the martyr-ballad ..... 260 Paulinus of Nola and the Christian elegy .... 272 Didactic or polemic poems 276 The Psychomachia 278
