– ⏑͐ | –́ ⏖ | –́ ⏑ | ⏗́ # –́ ⏑͐ | –́ ⏖ | ⏗́ | –́ ⌃
Examples are:—
Ṓ Co|lṓnia | quaé cu|pī́s # pónte | lū́dere | lón|gṓ (Cat. 17, 1).
Húnc lū|cúm tibi | dḗdi|cṓ # cṓnse|crōque Pri|ā́|pé. (Cat. Fr.).
The first series has the same form as the Glyconic ([2660]), and the second series has the same form as the Pherecratean, if the latter be written as a tetrapody (see [2659] ad fin.).
[DACTYLO-TROCHAIC RHYTHMS.]
[2675.] Dactylo-Trochaic verse, like logaoedic, is composed of dactyls and trochees; but whereas in logaoedic verse the dactyls and trochees occur within the same metrical series, in dactylo-trochaic they always form separate series. Hence dactylo-trochaic verses are always composite, consisting of two or more series in combination.
[2676.] It is uncertain whether the dactyls in dactylo-trochaic verse were cyclic ([2523]) or whether there was a change of time in the middle of the verse.
The Greater Archilochian.
[2677.] This verse is composed of a dactylic tetrameter acatalectic + a trochaic tripody. There is regularly a diaeresis after the first colon, and a caesura after the third thesis. The fourth foot is always a pure dactyl. The third foot is very often a spondee. The scheme is:—