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 OF THE GREEK DRAMATISTS. 389 Spondee) overflowing into the second, with the movement Anapestic throughout. Agani. 52. Trrepvywy ipir/jioicnv | ipea-a-oixcvoL. 794 = 766. Koi ivyxoLLpovaiu I o/xotOTrpcTTcis. (vide Gaisford, Hephoest. pp. 279, 80. Maltby, Lex. Grceco-Pros. xxviii. xxix. for a large collection of miscellaneous examples.) The following rare, perhaps singular, instance : Prom. V. 172 = 179. Kat fx ovt€ | /xcXtyXwo-crois ireiOovs, comes recommended at least by the uniform movement; whereas this line, if the reading be correct, from the Ilippolytus^ V. 1376 = 1357. Tt's If^iaT'qK ivSeiia TrkevpoLsj within the same word, ei/8c^ta, suffers the transition from Anapestic movement to Dactylic; a transition perhaps not entirely illegitimate, but one of very rare occurrence. In the second line of those quoted below, the structure, though exceedingly rare, is recommended by the continuity of Dactylic feet before and after it. Agam. 1557 = 1504. ...rrji/ iroXvKXavTrjv ^I(f>Lyev€Lav | ava^ta Spctcras, a^ta 7rd(T(x)v, k. t. . 8. The synapliea, (or (Tvvd(f>€ia,) that property of the Anapestic System which Bentley first demonstrated, is neither more nor less than continuous scansion: that is, scansion continued with strict exactness from the first syllable to the very last, but not including the last itself, as that syllable, and only that in the whole System, may be long or short indifferently. In this species of verse one hiatus alone is permitted, in the case of a final diphthong or long vowel so placed as to form a short syllable. The following instances may serve (Hermann, p. 373 = 237) : Pers. 39. koI eXcto/Jarat vawv Ipirai. 548. TToOiovcrai tSctv dpTt^vycav. 60. 0L)(€TaL dvSpujv. Hecuh. 123. toj 0ryo-et8a 8*, 0^0) 'A^T^vwr. With this point of prosody premised, two passages may suffice to exem- plify the Synaphea ; Prom. V. 199, 200. cis dpO/xov c/xot Kat ffiikoT-qTa CTreuScuv (TttcvSovti ttoB* rj^€i. The last syllable of v. 199 becomes long from the short vowel a being united with the consonants cnr at the beginning of v. 200. Had a single