My leisure serves me now, Menoetius’ son.[151]
Of the other:—
Heart of mine, O heart in turmoil with a throng of crushing cares![152]
These are all the varieties, rhythms, and forms of disyllabic words. Those of the trisyllabic are distinct; they are more numerous than those mentioned, and the study of them is more complicated. First comes that which consists entirely of short syllables, and is called by some choree (or tribrach), of which the following is an example:—
Bromius, wielder of spears,
Lord of war and the onset-cheers.[153]
This foot is mean and wanting in dignity and nobility, and
5 ἢ κείναν κείναν ἢ ταύταν PMV: ἢ κείναν ἢ ταύταν E, F 10 μὲν om. PMV 11 ἐπεὶ σχολὴ EMV: ἐπὶ σχολῆι FP 13 κήδεσι κεκυκώμενε sic F 14 μὲν EPMV: om. F 17 χορεῖος MV: om. FP 18 τρίβραχυς] τροχαῖος F. uncinis includendum vel τρίβραχυς πούς vel χορεῖος tamquam glossema quod, margini olim adscriptum, in textum postea irrepserit 20 καὶ ἀγεννής om. P
2. The high rank assigned to the spondee is noted in schol. anon. ad Hermog. II. ἰδ. (Walz Rhett. Gr. vii. 1049): τάττει (sc. Διονύσιος) δὲ τὸν σπονδεῖον μετ’ αὐτῶν (sc. μετὰ τῶν καλῶν ῥυθμῶν).—For Dionysius’ view of the spondee and other feet see also Walz viii. 980 Διονύσιος μὲν ἐν τῷ περὶ συνθέσεως ὀνομάτων φησὶν ὅτι ὁ δάκτυλος κτλ.
4. Euripides’ Hec. 162-4 runs thus in G. G. A. Murray’s text:—
ποίαν ἢ ταύταν ἢ κείναν
στείχω; †ποῖ δ’ ἥσω; †ποῦ τις θεῶν
†ἢ δαιμόνων †ἐπαρωγός;