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In Latin poetry, the term "archilochian" or "archilochean" is used to refer to a number of different metres, called the "1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th archilochian". However, different authors disagree on the numbering. The description below follows Rudd (2004) and Raven (1965).
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Two other similar metrical couplets imitated from
Archilochus combining dactylic and iambic metra are known as the 1st and 2nd pythiambic. The 1st pythiambic cpmbines a dactylic hexameter with an iambic dimeter:
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The 2nd pythiambic combines a dactylic hexameter with an ionic trimeter. In Horace's Epode 16 the trimeter is "pure", that is, every
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The above metre is called the "2nd
Archilochian" by Nisbet & Hubbard (1970), who use "1st Archilochian" as another name for the
218:
1282:
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An iambic trimeter, followed by a dactylic hemiepes + an iambic dimeter (the second line is known as an 'elegiambus'):
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of tragedy and comedy, with the same caesura as in the example from
Archilochus, as a rule, for example in
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4.7, praised by A. E. Housman in a lecture in 1914 as "the most beautiful poem in Latin literature":
515:
81:
1117:, Munich, 1993, p. 128 (here and in the index ×× is misprinted for × at the beginning of the verse)
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is observed before the ithyphallic (– u – u – –) ending of the verse. (Because of this, the name
670:(or Alcmanic) strophe, which consists of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic tetrameter.
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has sometimes been used to refer only to the colon x – u u – u u – x preceding the ithyphallic.)
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The first archilochian stanza consists of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic hemiepes:
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A dactylic tetrameter + ithyphallic (3 trochees), followed by an iambic trimeter catalectic:
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733: and snows are drawing down Jupiter; now the sea, now the forests...'
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The metre's name reflects the precedent in
Archilochus, for example, fr. 188 (West).
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886:'Harsh winter is being loosened with a welcome change of spring and the West Wind;
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889: and machines are dragging the dry keels (to the shore);
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the cattle no longer rejoice in their stable or the ploughman in his fire;
781: to write little verses smitten by a serious love'
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A dactylic hexameter, followed by an iambic dimeter + dactylic hemiepes:
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This is seen in
Archilochus, fr. 197 (West), and is used stichically by
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1028: and Rome is being ruined by its own strength'
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176:
895: nor are the meadows white with hoar frost.'
819:(The first of these lines is known as the "greater archilochian".)
659:'The snows have fled away, and grass is now returning to the plains
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Peter
Kruschwitz, " Die antiken Quellen zum Saturnischen Vers,"
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your mother, the applause of the theatre-seats, bore you happy.'
495:'Welcome, o foolishly-laughing crowd, to the post-festival days,
401:'Erasmonides Charilaos, I'm going to tell you an amusing thing,
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notes, no caesura is observed before the ithyphallic ending:
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343:
337:
1113:, 4th ed., Göttingen, 1982, pp. 41f. n. 11; C.M.J. Sicking,
730:'A dreadful storm has contracted the sky, and rain showers
1025:'Another generation is now being worn away by civil wars,
404:
most dearest of friends, and you will enjoy hearing it.'
749: – u u – u u x | x – u – x – u x
701: x – u – x – u x | – u u – u u x
960:'It was night and the moon was shining in a clear sky
939:
15 and 16. The following is the opening of Epode 15:
778:'Pettius, it does not please me at all as in the past
474:Khaîr᾽, ô még᾽ akhreiógelōs hómile, taîs epíbdais,
1217:Musa Pedestris: Metre and Meaning in Roman Verse
963: amidst the lesser stars'
662: and leaves to the trees'
1003: u – u – u – u – u – u x
815: x – u – x | – u – u – x
451:Χαῖρ᾽, ὦ μέγ᾽ ἀχρειόγελως ὅμιλε, ταῖς ἐπίβδαις,
723:nivēsque dēdūcunt Iovem; nunc mare nunc siluae
437:1518-1537 (with irregular responsion) and in
226:
8:
1170:
793:(= Nisbet & Hubbard's 3rd archilochian)
715:horrida tempestās caelum contraxit et imbrēs
600:(= Nisbet & Hubbard's 2nd archilochian)
575:– u – x – u – x – u –,
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644:diffūgēre nivēs, redeunt iam grāmina campīs
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488:eudaímon᾽ étikté se mḗtēr ikríōn psóphēsis.
481:tês hēmetéras sophías kritḕs áriste pántōn,
314:
1228:Nisbet, R. G. M. & Hubbard, M (1970).
233:
219:
18:
1010:altera iam teritur bellīs cīvīlibus aetās
771:scrībere versiculōs amōre percussum gravī
465:εὐδαίμον᾽ ἔτικτέ σε μήτηρ ἰκρίων ψόφησις.
458:τῆς ἡμετέρας σοφίας κριτὴς ἄριστε πάντων,
297:usually describes the following length:
1089:
1063:. Loeb Classical Library 33, pp. 14–15.
931: x – u – x – u x
268:, whose poetry first uses the rhythms.
21:
1038:Nisbet, R. G. M.; Hubbard, M. (1970).
945:nox erat et caelō fulgēbat lūna serēnō
571:for the trochaic trimeter catalectic:
630: – u u – u u x
7:
1197:Nisbet & Hubbard (1970), p. xiv.
441:fr. 360 (Kassel-Austin), where, as
252:is a term used to describe several
1230:A Commentary on Horace Odes Book 1
1040:A Commentary on Horace Odes Book 1
859:ac neque iam stabulīs gaudet pecus
498:best of all critics of our wisdom,
14:
763:Pettī, nihil mē sīcut anteā iuvat
746:x – u – x – u – x – u x
329:comes from Archilochus' fr. 168 (
321:syllable). The alternative name
832:Solvitur ācris hiēms grātā vice
785:cf. Archilochus fr. 196 (West)
301:x – u u – u u – x | – u – u – x
1076:An Introduction to Greek Metre
1018:suīs et ipsa Rōma vīribus ruit
980:position is a short syllable:
1:
545:403 ~ 417, and Aristophanes,
505:The verse also occurs in the
1259:Greek Metre: An Introduction
264:. The name is derived from
16:Greek and Latin poetic form
1299:
1261:, London, 1962, pp. 48-50.
464:
457:
450:
388:, polù phíltath᾽ hetaírōn,
361:
351:
344:
338:
1215:Morgan, Llewllyn (2010).
1160:, Leiden, 1987, pp. 139f.
1145:The Songs of Aristophanes
1098:The Songs of Aristophanes
935:This is found in Horace,
753:This is found in Horace,
1015:
950:
870:
843:
768:
720:
649:
62:Latin rhythmic hexameter
1219:, Oxford; introduction.
1100:, Oxford, 1997, p. xvii
789:4th archilochian stanza
738:3rd archilochian stanza
674:2nd archilochian stanza
596:1st archilochian stanza
419:The verse is also used
356:, πολὺ φίλταθ᾽ ἑταίρων,
305:(where "–" indicates a
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1061:Horace Odes and Epodes
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822:An example is Horace,
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705:An example is Horace,
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643:
634:An example is Horace,
583:, fr. 202 (Pfeiffer).
315:
77:Metres of Roman comedy
1241:Allen and Greenough,
1206:Raven (1965), p. 112.
1186:Griechische Verslehre
1172:Griechische Verslehre
1156:J. M. van Ophuijsen,
1141:Griechische Verslehre
1115:Griechische Verslehre
1052:Raven, D. S. (1965).
1045:Raven, D. S. (1962),
23:Greek and Latin metre
1283:Ancient Greek poetry
1158:Hephaestion on Metre
1073:West, M. L. (1987).
1066:West, M. L. (1982).
1056:. Faber & Faber.
1049:. Faber & Faber.
516:Seven Against Thebes
371:Erasmonídē Kharílae,
82:Trochaic septenarius
953:inter minōra sīdera
812:– u u | – u – u – x
542:Iphigenia in Tauris
394:térpseai d᾽ akoúōn.
339:Ἐρασμονίδη Χαρίλαε,
281:In the analysis of
1143:, p. 185; Parker,
1111:Griechische Metrik
652:arboribusque comae
555:Another definition
377:khrêmá toi geloîon
362:τέρψεαι δ᾽ ἀκούων.
187:Resolution (meter)
157:Anaclasis (poetry)
112:Asclepiad (poetry)
72:Saturnian (poetry)
42:Dactylic hexameter
1243:New Latin Grammar
1232:(Oxford), p. xiv.
1130:55 (2002), p. 478
1059:Rudd, N. (2004).
879:albicant pruīnīs.
852:māchinae carīnās,
846:trahuntque siccās
427:, for example in
345:χρῆμά τοι γελοῖον
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865:aut arātor ignī
838:vēris et Favōnī
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519:756-7 ~ 764-5,
287:Classical Greek
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192:Brevis brevians
172:Brevis in longo
167:Metron (poetry)
87:Hendecasyllable
67:Iambic trimeter
52:Alcmanian verse
47:Elegiac couplet
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280:
277:Erasmonidean
262:Latin poetry
250:archilochean
249:
246:Archilochian
245:
244:
197:Porson's Law
132:Anacreontics
97:Aeolic verse
57:Archilochian
56:
1068:Greek Metre
1054:Latin Metre
1047:Greek Metre
581:Callimachus
526:Oedipus Rex
443:Hephaestion
421:stichically
266:Archilochus
127:Ionic metre
1272:Categories
563:metrician
425:Old Comedy
1184:Sicking,
1175:, p. 128.
1169:Sicking,
1139:Sicking,
1128:Mnemosyne
1079:. Oxford.
1070:. Oxford.
1042:. Oxford.
1000:– u u – x
928:– u u – x
698:– u u – x
668:Alcmanian
561:Byzantine
531:Euripides
521:Sophocles
511:Aeschylus
207:Catalexis
152:Lekythion
1188:, p. 111
439:Cratinus
309:, "u" a
289:poetry,
147:Dochmiac
107:Glyconic
102:Choriamb
92:Choliamb
565:Trichas
551:580-1.
410:caesura
283:Archaic
976:anceps
937:Epodes
755:Epodes
707:Epodes
317:anceps
307:longum
254:metres
177:Anceps
1084:Notes
826:1.4:
536:Medea
434:Wasps
311:breve
824:Odes
757:11:
709:13:
636:Odes
559:The
331:West
285:and
260:and
998:u u
994:u u
990:u u
986:u u
926:u u
922:u u
918:u u
914:u u
810:u u
806:u u
802:u u
696:u u
692:u u
688:u u
684:u u
627:– x
625:u u
621:u u
617:u u
613:u u
609:u u
423:in
333:):
325:or
293:or
256:of
248:or
1274::
1245:,
996:–
992:–
988:–
984:–
924:–
920:–
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912:–
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