Laevius and Varro employ Ionic ā māiōre systems of considerable length.
The Ionic ā minōre Tetrameter Catalectic (or Galliambic.)
[2714.] This consists of four Ionic ā minōre feet, the last one incomplete. Anaclasis, resolution, and contraction are extremely common, and the multiplication of short syllables gives the verse a peculiarly wild and frenzied movement. Catullus very rarely admits Ionics that are not anaclastic (never in the first half of the verse, except the doubtful cases 63, 18; 54; 75); but Varro is less strict in this regard. The penultimate long is nearly always resolved. There is rarely more than one resolution in the same half-verse. A diaeresis regularly occurs after the second foot. The scheme is:—
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