–́ ⏖ | ⏗́ | –́ ⌃

[2657.] (2.) A Latin Adonic should consist of a disyllable + a trisyllable, or the reverse. This rule did not hold in Greek, where such lines occur as ὦ τὸν Ἄδωνιν. Elision is not allowed in the Latin Adonic. Late Latin poets (like Terentianus) sometimes employ the Adonic in stichic series ([2546]).

[TRIPODIES.]

The Aristophanic.

[2658.] This is a logaoedic tripody acatalectic, with a dactyl in the first place. The scheme is therefore:—

–́ ⏑ ⏑ | –́ ⏑ | –́ ⏑

There is no fixed caesura. Examples are:—

Quíd latet | út ma|rī́nae (H. 1, 8, 13).

Fū́nera | nḗ vi|rī́lis (H. 1, 8, 15).

Some authorities write the scheme as: