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From Hephaestion as a specimen of catalectic iambic.

To what may I liken thee, dear bridegroom?

Best to a tender shoot may I liken thee.

From Hephaestion as an example of metre.

Quoted by Servius about A.D. 390, and referred to by Pollux and Julian.