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 386 ON THE LANGUAGE, METRES AND PKOSODY other words, have their natural division after the fifth syllable, and all is correct accordingly : Tph. A. 1354. ko.tBo.vCiv /xeV ixoi ] SeSoKraf tovto 8' avro f3ovXofJt.ai. ' 897. aAA.' iKX-qQ-qq yovv | raAaivT^s -rrapOivov tAos 7roo-ts. Nor does the following verse, Or est. 794. rovr Ik^Ivo KracrO^ kTalpov;, jxrj ro (ruyyeveq /xovov, contain any real exception to the canon : for the first dipodia does not end with a word marked by any pause of utterance. Quite the contrary indeed; for iKetvo is pronounced in immediate contact with KToiaOc : TOVT iK€LvoKTaa6^ eratpovg, k. t. . otherwise the 2nd foot would not be a spondee at all. (Something more on this head will be found in note (B), ch. xvi., where lines like the fol- lowing are considered : Ilecub. 723. "Hjaeis fxlv ovv iwfxev, ovBl i//auo/X€v.) 5. If the verse is concluded by one word forming the Orotic termi- nation (— w— ), or by more words than one to that amount united in meaning, so that after the sixth foot that portion of sense and sound is separately perceived, then the sixth foot is — v^ or v^wv^, i.e. may not be or wv^— . Pho&n. 616. i^cXavvofxeo-Oa TraT/atSos. kol yap ^XOes [ i^cXiov, 643. eXTTtSes 8' ovTTOi KaOevSova, ats TrcTrot^a | avv Oeots. It is unnecessary to remark, that, in verses like that below, the words at the close naturally go together, to form a quadrisyllable ending, and have nothing to do with the rule here laid down. /p/t. A. 1349. a<2 Tj-oacf to. 8' dSyvaO* -qplv Kaprepetv | ov paSiov. The same is true of similar dissyllabic, quinquesy liable, and other end- ings ; which, however, in Tragic verse rarely takes place. YII. — In the Comic Tetramete7', 1. the Scansion agrees with the Tragic, except only that the in 6th sometimes, though very rarely, precedes the wwv^* in 7th (ch. vi. § 2), as in the line from Philemon : OvT€ yap vavayos, av firj y7J<; Xd/3r]TaL ^epo/x€v09. The Comic, like the Tragic Tetrameter, admits the — v^w only in the case of a proper name, and not otherwise. 2. But, in respect of Structure, the nice points of Tragic verse are freely neglected. Neither the great division in medio versu (ch. vi. i