“Alter | parva fe | rens manu | semper | munera | larga.”
This measure appears only in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth poems.
5. Iambic tetrameter catalectic, formed of seven feet and a cæsura at the close of the line. It occurs in the twenty-fifth poem.
6. Choriambus. This also is employed but once, being used only in the thirtieth. It consists of five feet,—a spondee, three choriambi, and a pyrrhichius.
“Ventos | irrita fer | et nebulas | aerias | sinis.”
7. A sort of Phalæcian, consisting of two spondees and three chorei.
“Quas vul | tu vi | di ta | men se | reno.”
But it sometimes consists of a spondee and four chorei. This measure is adopted in some lines of the fifty-fifth ode.
8. Glyconian, generally made up of a spondee and two dactyles.
“Jam ser | vire Tha | lassio.”