but sometimes of a trochæus and two dactyles.
“Cinge | tempora | floribus.”
This sort of verse occurs, but mixed with other measures in the thirty-fourth ode, addressed to Diana, and also in the sixtieth.
9. Pherecratian, consisting of three feet, a trochee, spondee, or iambus in the first place, followed by a dactyl and spondee.
Exer | ceto ju | ventam
Frige | rans Aga | nippe
Hymen | O Hyme | næe.
This is used in the thirty-fourth and sixtieth, mingled with glyconian verse.
10. Galliambic. This is employed only in the poem of Atys, which indeed is the sole specimen of the galliambic measure, in the Latin language. It consists of six feet, which are used very loosely and indiscriminately. The first seems to be at pleasure, an anapæst, spondee, or tribrachys; second, an iambus, tribrachys, or dactyl; third, iambus or spondee; fourth, dactyl or spondee; fifth, a dactyl, or various other feet; sixth, generally an anapæst, but sometimes an iambus.
“Super alta vectus Atys celeri rate maria.”