This is often compounded with a trochaic tripody catalectic: e.g.
Hóc ub(ī̆) Am|phítru(ō) erus # cṓnspi|cā́tus | ést (Pl. Am. 242),
and sometimes with a trochaic tripody acatalectic (e.g. Pl. Ps. 1248), a trochaic dipody acatalectic (e.g. Pl. Cap. 214), or a Thymelicus – ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ – (e.g. Pl. Am. 245). For other kinds of Cretic verses, see special editions of the early dramatists.
[BACCHĪAC RHYTHMS.]
[2698.] These are rhythms of the Hemiolic class ([2527]), in 5/8 time. The fundamental foot is the Bacchīus (⏑ –́ –̇). Either (or both) of the two longs of a bacchīus is sometimes resolved. For the initial short syllable an irrational long is sometimes substituted. Occasionally two shorts are so substituted, especially in the first foot of a verse.
[2699.] (1.) The ictus on the first long of the bacchīus was probably stronger than that on the second long.
[2700.] (2.) The bacchiac rhythm, like the Cretic, has an impetuous and passionate character.
The Bacchiac Tetrameter Acatalectic.
[2701.] This verse consists of four complete bacchiac feet. There is generally a caesura after the first long of the second or third foot, or (more rarely) a diaeresis after the second foot. An irrational long (or two shorts) may be substituted for the initial short only in the first and third feet. Resolution is not allowed before the caesura or the end of the verse. The scheme is:—
