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 400 ON THE LANGUAGE, METRES AND PROSODY XVI. — Note B. On the Pause or Cretic Termination. (Vide cL iii. § 2. ch. vi. § 5.) 1. In the Iambic Trimeter, if the slightest pause or break iu the sense cause the word or words which give to the verse a Cretic ending {—y^—) to be separately uttered, then the fifth foot may not be, but must be v^— or ^^^. The different modes of concluding the line which reject the in 5th shall be first exhibited. a. The simplest structure which rejects the there is the follow- ing, when the Cretic consists of a single detached word : Hecuh. 343. KpvTnovTa X^'ipa koI irpoa-oiTrov tfXTraXiv. Ion 1. ArA-as o vcorots )(aKeoLcnv  ovpavov. Avhich lines in the old editions stand thus : KpvTTTOVTa X^'-P* '^^^ TrpoaroyTTOV | Tov/x7raXtv. ArAas o x^Xkcoio-i vwrots | ovpavov. (Vide Porson, xxx.=27.) (3. In the next case, the Cretic consists of — «^ and a syllable, thus: Ov'est. 1079. K'fj^o'i 8c tov/xoj/ Koi (Tov ovK€T | icTrl I St]. 1081. ^cup, ov yap 'qpHv ian tovto, | crot ye | fXTjV. or the Cretic consists of an article or preposition (— ) attached (in syntax or collocation) to the subsequent word : Hecuh. 382. KaXws p-^v et-n-ag, Ovyarep, dWd | t(3 KaXw. 397. Setv'o? -^apaKTTjp, KaTriVr^fios | €V jSpoTols. Under this head of monosyllables are embraced tl<s, ttws, when interro- gative, with C09, ov, Kat, and the like. (Vide Porson, xxxi. = 27.) 2. Many semblances of the Cretic termination occur, to which the Canon bears no application. Those cases, admitting the in 5th, may be commodiously classed under the following heads : Where a monosyllabic word before the final Iambus belongs by collocation to the preceding word ; as in enclitics : Jlec. 505. (nT€vS(Dp.ev, eyKov(o/x€v '^yov fxoL, yepov. Prom. V. 669. tl TrapOevevei Sapov, e^ov arot  yd/xov. Agam. 1019. co-co cj^peviov Xiyovaa TreiOw vtv  yio. Rhes. 717. yStov 8' tTratrw etpTr' dyvpTr]<^ rts | Aarpts. ndloct. 801. ep.7rpr}(Tov, w ycvi/ate* Kayw rot | Trore.