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396 In V. 1324 = 1345, the word occurs with the more usual, and it may be the pleasanter, ictuation :

A similar difference is found in the ictus of Aprc/xtSt : Iph. A. 872 =: 883.

348 = 359.

The two following lines from the Persce also exhibit that peculiar ictus :

739.

176.

Other varieties, and not of very rare occurrence, may be remarked in these lines :

Agam. 1644.

Iph. A. 852 = 863. 900 = 911.

XII. — The Ictus of Iambic Verse in Tragedy. 9. In the Iambic dipodia (supra 4) the Iambus and the Spondee have the ictus on the second syllable. When the Tribrach stands in the place of the Iambus, and the nominal Dactyl in that of the Spondee,

each of those feet has the ictus on the middle syllable,

The ictuation therefore of Iambic verse in its resolved feet may be readily shown :

(Ed. B. 112.

26.

568.

Med. 1173.

CEd. M. 719.

Phoen. 40.

(Ed. R. 257.

Or est. 288. Kat