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 388 ON THE LANGUAGE, METRES AND PROSODY TOVTO' TrpoS T^fXOiV KaTTTreae, KarOave, kol KaTaOdxj/oixeVf ov;( VTTO KXav$fx<2v T(3v c^ oikcov. Septem Euripides in Hippolyt. 1361 =1358. 7rp6<j(fiopd fx atp€T€, crvvTOva, 8* cAk€T€ Tov KaKoSaifxova, kol KardpaTOV 7raTpo9 a/x,7rXaKtats. Hermann, p. 377 = 240.) 5. Yery rarely, and perhaps not agreeably, in tlie Dactylic dipodia, the Spondee is found to precede the Dactyl : of the two following in- stances, the first presents the more objectionable form; the second, succeeded by a Dactyl and Spondee, can hardly be said to offend at all : Androm. 1228 = 1204. Sai/xwi/ oSe rts, | AcvktJv aWipa 7ropOfJL€v6fji.€vo<;, I Iph. A. 161 = 159. OvrjTOJV 8' 6X/3lo<s | €is tcAos ovSet?. On this curious subject, in all its minutiae, vide the acute and diligent Elmsley, ad Med. 1050, note g, and (Ed. Colo7i. 1766. 6. The Dactyl, when in any way it precedes the Anapest, appears to be considered by metrical scholars as a case of great awkwardness and difficulty. The following statement, reprinted with a few verbal altera- tions from the Museum Criticum, (Yol. i. p. 333), may suffice perhaps for all practical purposes. The concurrence of Dactyl with Anapest, in that order, is not very often found between one dimeter and another. Eurip. Electr. 1320, 1. ^vyyove (^tArare- 8ta yap t,€vyvv(r yfjid<s TrarptW' (vid. S. Theb. w. 827, 8. ^^6, 6, for two more instances.) The combination is very rare where one dipodia closes with a Dactyl, and the next begins with an Anapest, thus : Eurip. Electr. 1317. Odpaw IlaXXdSos — oVtai/ ^^ets ttoXlv aAA ai/e^ov. Ilecuh. 144. t^' 'Aya/x€/xvovos | t/certs yovdroiv. Within the same dijDodia, we may venture to assert that such a combi- nation never takes place. 7. Thus far of the Anapestic Dimeter, when the first dipodia, as most usually it does, ends with a word. This, however, is not always the case; and of such verses as want that division those are the most frequent, and the most pleasing also, which have the first dipodia after an Anapest (sometimes after a