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published a collection of erotic anacreontics which are also typical in form; Moore speaks of the necessity of catching "the careless facility with which
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dimeter (u u – – u u – –), i.e. an ionic dimeter with the 4th and 5th syllables reversed; but whether this is so or not, the two meters have been associated since
Anacreon, who often used them together in compositions.
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