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Examples are:—
Habénd(um) et | ferúnd(um) hoc # onúst cum | labṓre (Pl. Am. 175).
At támen ubi | fidḗs? ‖ sī | rogḗs nīl | pudént hīc (T. Andr. 637).
Vetulaé sunt | min(ae) ámb(ae). At # bonā́s fu͡is|se crḗdō (Pl. B. 1129).
[2702.] (1.) There are seldom more than two resolutions in the same verse, and never more than three. Bacchiac tetrameters are often repeated to form systems.
[2703.] (2.) According to some authorities, bacchiac tetrameters catalectic sometimes occur, e.g. Pl. Cas. 656, 867, Men. 969, 971, Most. 313, Poen. 244.
Other Bacchiac Verses.
[2704.] (1.) Bacchiac dimeters are occasionally found, especially as clausulae to bacchiac systems. An example is:—
Ad aétā|t(em) agúndam (Pl. Tri. 232).