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ON THE LANGUAGE, METRES AND PROSODY

In V. 1324 = 1345, the word (Symbol missingGreek characters) occurs with the more usual, and it may be the pleasanter, ictuation :

(Symbol missingGreek characters)

A similar difference is found in the ictus of Aprc/xtSt : Iph. A. 872 =: 883.

(Symbol missingGreek characters)

348 = 359. (Symbol missingGreek characters)

The two following lines from the Persce also exhibit that peculiar ictus :

739. (Symbol missingGreek characters)

176. (Symbol missingGreek characters)

Other varieties, and not of very rare occurrence, may be remarked in these lines :

Agam. 1644. (Symbol missingGreek characters)

Iph. A. 852 = 863. (Symbol missingGreek characters) 900 = 911. (Symbol missingGreek characters)

XII. — The Ictus of Iambic Verse in Tragedy. 9. In the Iambic dipodia (supra 4) the Iambus and the Spondee have the ictus on the second syllable. When the Tribrach stands in the place of the Iambus, and the nominal Dactyl in that of the Spondee,

each of those feet has the ictus on the middle syllable, (Symbol missingsymbol characters)

The ictuation therefore of Iambic verse in its resolved feet may be readily shown :

(Ed. B. 112. (Symbol missingGreek characters)

26. (Symbol missingGreek characters)

568. (Symbol missingGreek characters)

Med. 1173. (Symbol missingGreek characters)

CEd. M. 719. (Symbol missingGreek characters)

Phoen. 40.(Symbol missingGreek characters)

(Ed. R. 257. (Symbol missingGreek characters)

Or est. 288. Kat (Symbol missingGreek characters)