10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DITROCHEE»
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ditrochee in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ditrochee and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
collected, I think, from the fragments of Sappho, and still more plainly hom the
Sapphics of catullus and Horace, that the whole strophe is to be considered as
one line, divisible into three colons, consisting each of a ditrochee, a dactyl, and ...
2
Latin prosody made easy: The 4th ed. with the poetic ...
It is worthy of remark, however, that, in enumerating the trochees which this verse
will admit, Terentianus does not at all notice the first foot or measure, as alterable
to a ditrochee : and indeed, in about three hundred Sotadics of his own, he has ...
3
Hermann's Elements of the Doctrine of Metres, abridged and ...
This ditrochee (or iambic member, if that appellation be preferred) is for the most
part ended with a long syllable: as in the Agam. 246. . filtt x'ohu't-'w r' dvru'l5p
Iuévet. The caesura, which should rightly be in that syllable, is frequently
neglected ...
Johann Gottfried Jacob HERMANN, John SEAGER, 1830
4
The ancient rhythmical art recovered; or, A new method of ...
yEschylus, Choceph. 942, resolves both the ditrochee and the bacchius : a%tv,
aSoXwg SoXiav. |- vvv 2.|i vv-"|| 8. Euripides, Phoeniss. 191, resolves the first
metre : virtpavopa KOipiZtig. I *l* 1 I 9. The Ionic a majore. S. Electr. 509 ; CEd.
Col.
William O'Brien (A.M.), 1843
5
The Metres of the Greeks and Romans: A Manual for Schools ...
Finally, the ditrochee could everywhere be substituted for the ionic, which was
often done, particularly in the third foot. The first long of the ditrochee could be
resolved ; in Plautus the second also ; finally, it was allowed to put the fourth
epitrite ...
Eduard Munk, Charles Beck, Cornelius Conway Felton, 1844
6
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
8, 4 However, when those readers consider the general burst of applause excited
by the harmonious cadence alone of the final ditrochee in " Patris dictum sapiens
tenieritas filii comprobavit," as we learn from Cicero, in his Orator, sect.
Tobias George Smollett, 1800
7
Elements of the Doctrine of Metres
JLscbylua Sept. ad Th. 241. 247. rls rabe vifieots orvyei ; rifitov Sbos IKOfiav. §
253. An amphibrachys also is found set before a dochmius: jEscli. Pers. 269- 275
. ra iroWa fiiKea ira/u/uyi/. § 254. A ditrochee with an anacrusis is often put before
...
8
The Recensions of Demetrius Triclinius
6v) has the colon 7] Sai(x6vcov icst' Spcoyo? described as a ionic dimeter
consisting of a third epitrite and a ditrochee. It is well known that this is a locus
conclamatus in the Byzantine recensions. The old tradition has ercapa^<; as has
...
9
Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
ditrochee. Also dichoree. Two trochees (q.v.) / v /u taken as one metrical unit.
Also called trochaic monometer (q.v.). A composition to be sung; perhaps a lai (
q.v.) or any short song, even a ballad (q.v.). It can denote many kinds of
composition ...
10
Latin Prosody Made Easy ... With occasional observations and ...
0n the contrary, his fondness ofthe ditrochee renders it more `than probable that
he wrote and pronuanced-Suoi V ërîtïs.-Of the Листе, indeed, he has a most
remarkablejnstance in his fourth against Catiline, § З: “ Sine hoc шииты, агаты
mïhï ...
