α). With a non-enclitic mono-syllable the result is a penthimimer cæsura; since the syllable preceding a monosyllable is necessarily final.
Ἡκω σεβι´ζων σο´ν Κλυ´ται|μνηστρα κρατος.
No remark has been made by critics upon lines constructed in this manner, since the cæsura is a penthimimer, and consequently their rules are undisturbed.
β). With poly-syllabic circumflex futures constituting the third foot, there would be a violation of the current rules respecting the cæsura. Notwithstanding this, if the views of the present paper be true, there would be no violation of the iambic character of the senarius. Against such a line as
Καγω το σον νεμω´ ποθει|νον αυλιον
there is no argument a priori on the score of the iambic character being violated; whilst in respect to objections derived from evidence a posteriori, there is sufficient reason for such lines being rare.
γ). With poly-syllables abbreviated by apocope, we have the state of things which the metrists have recognised under the name of quasi-cæsura; as
Κεντειτε μη φειδε´σθ' εγω | 'τεκον Παριν.
3. The eighth syllable preceded in the same word by two syllables.—This is equivalent to the fifth syllable occurring at the end of the word preceding: a state of things which gives the penthimimer cæsura; as
Οδμη βροτειων αἱ´ ματῶν | με προσγελα.