The Versus Reizianus.
[2625.] This is a composite verse, consisting of two cola, an iambic dimeter acatalectic and an iambic tripody catalectic. The scheme is therefore,
| ⏑͐ –́ | ⏑͐ –̇ | ⏑͐ –́ | ⏑ –̇ # ⏑͐ –́ | ⏑͐ –́ | ⏑ ⌅ |
| ⏑ ⏑́ ⏑ | ⏑ ⏑̇ ⏑ | ⏑ ⏑́ ⏑ | [⏑ ⏑́ ⏑] | ⏑ ⏑́ ⏑ | |
| > ⏑́ ⏑ | > ⏑̇ ⏑ | > ⏑́ ⏑ | > ⏑́ ⏑ | > ⏑́ ⏑ | |
| ⏖ –́ | ⏖ –̇ | ⏖ –́ | ⏖ –́ | ⏖ –́ | |
| ⏖ ⏑́ ⏑ | [⏖ ⏑̇ ⏑] | [⏖ ⏑́ ⏑] | ⏖ ⏑́ ⏑ | ⏖ ⏑́ ⏑ | |
Examples are:—
Sed in aé|dibus | quid tíbi | meīs # n(am) erát | negṓ|tī
m(ē) absén|te, nis(i) e|go iús|seram? # volo scī́|re. Tac(ē) ér|gō
Quia vḗ|nimŭs coc|t(um) ad nū́|ptiās. # Quid tū́, | malŭm, cū́|rās. (Pl. Aul. 427.)
[2626.] The nature of the second colon of this verse has long been disputed. Reiz and Christ treat it substantially as above; Studemund regards it as a syncopated iambic dimeter catalectic (⏑ – ⏑ ⏗ – ⏑), Spengel and Gleditsch as anapaestic, Leo as logaoedic, Klotz as sometimes logaoedic and sometimes anapaestic! The view of Christ (Metrik2, p. 348) seems, on the whole, the most reasonable, though the question cannot be said to be fully decided. The tribrach is rare in the second colon, but there seems to be a case in Plautus, R. 675 b.
[2627.] For other iambic verses and combinations of verses, see special editions of the dramatists.