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 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