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 OF THE GREEK DKAMATI^S. 387 § 3), nor the rules (cli. vi. §§ 4, 5), concerning those divisions which sometimes take place after the first dipodia, or before the final Cretic, appear to have been regarded in the construction of comic verse. Lines like the following occur in great abundance : Xuhes, 599. Trpwra [xlv yaip^iv ^ K6'qvaLoL(Ti koI rots ^v^/xa;)(ots. 580. arr' av v/xets j e^a/xaprryr', c—t to (3eTL0V rpe~€LV. 568. 7rA.€tcrra yap Oeotv d—dvTwv co^eXovcrats — Ty]V ttoXiv. Ylll. — Anaj^estic Verses. 1. The Anapestic Dimeter of Tragedy is so named from the striking predominance of the Anapestic foot, though it frequently admits the Dactylic dipodia. In a regular System, it consists of Dimeters with a Monometer (or Anapestic base), sometimes interposed, and is concluded by a Dimeter Catalectic, technically called the Paremiac verse. The separate feet of the Dimeter Acatalectic are shown in the scan- sional table below : ^^(^ V^«._/ — ^> V^ V^ V_/ 2. In the predominant or Anapestic dipodia the Anapest and Spondee are combined without any restriction. Prom. Y. 93 — 5. ^epxOyjO^ otats | atKtatcrtv | SLaKvaLOjxevos tov jxvpLCTrj [ )(p6vov d6cV(TU). j 3. In the occasional or Dactylic dipodia, the Dactyl most usually precedes its own Spondee, as in three instances which the following verses contain : Prom. V. 292 — 5. rjKui Sol-^'i]<; | repfxa KeXevOov | 8ta/x€ti//a/x€vos | tt/jos ae, llpojX-qOev, [ TOV TTTepvyojKi] I TOV^" OL0)v6v I yvwfxr] (TTOfxiijiv | drcp cvOvvmv. [ 4. Sometimes the Dactyl is paired Tdth itself : Med. 161, 2 'Cl fxeydXa QifXL | kol ttotvl "AprepiL, | XevcrcreO a, Trao-^oj. I 167,8. o) Trarep, to ttoAi?, | ojv d7r€vda$T]v ato-^pws TOV ip.6v I KT€Lvaaa Kdaiv. | (Dactyli ssepissime substituuntur Anapaestis, nee tantum unus aliquis, sed saepe etiam plures continui. Quinque continuavit ^schvlus i)i Agam. 1561 = 1529. 25—2.