Under the blossom that hangs on the bough,

are dactylic tetrapodies with catalexis.

(c) Spondees.—It is not certain that these are used as a base, though as a variant in anapæstic and dactylic metre they are common. Iph. Taur., 123-5, may be taken as spondees:—

εὐφαμεῖτ’ ὦ

πόντου δισσὰς συγχωρούσας

πέτρας Ἀξείνου ναίοντες.

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But they may be quasi-anapæsts, the whole passage which they introduce being an anapæstic entrance-march, though heavily spondaic. Ion, 125-7:

ὦ Παιάν, ὦ Παιάν,

εὐαίων, εὐαίων