(Cat. 34, 4).

Some authorities prefer to regard the Pherecratean as a syncopated logaoedic tetrapody catalectic, with the scheme:—

[–́ ⏑]
–́ >–́ ⏖⏗́–́ ⌃
[⏑́–]

[TETRAPODIES.]

The Glyconic.

[2660.] This verse is used by Catullus ([34], [61]), by Horace (in the First, Second, and Third Asclepiadean Strophes: see [2731], [2732], [2733]), and by Seneca and other later writers. It is a logaoedic tetrapody catalectic, with a dactyl in the second place. The scheme is:—

[–́ ⏑]
–́ >–́ ⏖–́ ⏑–́ ⌃
[⏑́–]

The trochee and iambus in the first foot occur in Catullus, but not in Horace (except in the doubtful case, 1, 15, 36). There is generally a trithemimeral caesura; more rarely one in the arsis of the second foot. Examples are:—

Quém mor|tís ‖ timu|ít gra|dúm (H. 1, 3, 17).

With initial trochee: Mónti|úm ‖ domi|n(a) út fo|rḗs (Cat. 34, 9).