Example:—
Qu(ī) ímpi|ger fu|ī́
–́ ⏑ | –̇ ⏑ | –́ ⌃ (Pl. R. 925).
In one instance (R. 924 ff.) Plautus has six catalectic tripodies in succession.
[2649.] The Trochaic Monometer Acatalectic is sometimes used by Plautus as a clausula ([2536]) to Cretic tetrameters., It consists of one complete trochaic dipody, e.g. nímis in|epta’ s, R. 681. iū́re in|iūstās, Am. 247. Terence uses the catalectic monometer twice (Eu. 292, Ph. 485) at the beginning of a scene, e.g. Dṓri|ō, Ph. 485. Plautus has a few other trochaic verses and combinations of verses, for which see special editions of his plays.
[LOGAOEDIC RHYTHMS.]
[2650.] Logaoedic verse consists of dactyls and trochees combined in the same metrical series. The dactyls are “cyclic” (see [2523]), occupying approximately the time of trochees, and hence the verse moves in 3/8 time. Except in the “Lesser Alcaic” verse ([2663]), only one dactyl may stand in a single series; and a dactyl must not occupy the last place in a line.
[2651.] (1.) The name “logaoedic” (Gr. λογαοιδικός, from λόγος, speech, prose, and ἀοιδή, song) may refer to the apparent change of rhythm (due to the mixture of dactyls and trochees), in which logaoedic verse resembles prose; but this is a disputed point.
[2652.] (2.) In the logaoedic verses of Horace, an irrational spondee almost always takes the place of a trochee before the first dactyl; and if an apparent choriambus (–́ ⏑ ⏑ | ⏗́; see [2521]) is followed by another apparent choriambus in the same verse, the two are regularly separated by a caesura. These rules are not observed by Catullus.