[2730.] (XII.) The Greater Asclepiadean Metre, a series of Greater Asclepiadeans ([2670]) employed stichically ([2546]):—
–́ > | –́ ⏖ | ⏗́ # –́ ⏖ | ⏗́ # –́ ⏖ | –́ ⏑ | –⌃ C. 1, 11, 18; 4, 10.
So Alcaeus, e.g.:—
μηδὲν ἄλλο φυτεύσῃς πρότερον δένδριον ἀμπέλω (Fr. 44, Bergk).
Many editors hold (with Meineke) that the Horatian odes were written in tetrastichs ([2545]), and hence that this metre and the preceding were employed by Horace in strophes of four lines each. Catullus ([30]) seems to use the Greater Asclepiadean by distichs, and so apparently Sappho (fr. 69, Bergk). But as to these points there is still much dispute.
[2731.] (XIII.) The First Asclepiadean Strophe, a Glyconic ([2660]) followed by a Lesser Asclepiadean ([2669]):—
–́ > | –́ ⏖ | –́ ⏑ | –́ ⌃
–́ > | –́ ⏖ | ⏗́ # –́ ⏖ | –́ ⏑ | –́ ⌃ C. 1, 3, 13, 19, 36; 3, 9, 15, 19, 24, 25, 28; 4, 1, 3.
Cf. Alcaeus:—
νῦν δ’ [αὖτ’] οὗτος ἐπικρέτει