such Iambics have an Iambus, and such Trochaics a Trochee; or it very rarely happens to be otherwise. 7. The Cæsura, or half foot, in the close of Catalectics, whether Iambic or Trochaic, may be either long or short, the last syllable being common. Hence a Pyrrhic may be found at the close of some verses, but no where else. Here follows a Synopsis of all the many sorts of verses which have been before described. And though I cannot think it contains all that have been in use, much less all the language is capable of; yet I believe a larger inventory is not to be found elsewhere; unless it be in a book which I have never seen, but which Vossius thus refers his reader to, "Consulat Servium "in Centimetro," and in which Servius, I conclude, describes one hundred different sorts of Latin Verse. But what Vossius acknowledges of his account, may be said even of such an account by Servius," Plura possunt excogitari." Vossius's account is very imperfect. I am however indebted to it. And such is the variety of the Greek and Latin feet, though composed of only two sorts of measures, the long time and the short, that verses of five hundred different sorts might be made of them. COMPOSITION IN VERSE. HAVING reviewed the several kinds of Latin Verse individually, we will now observe the beautiful variety they are capable of in Carmine, i. e. in composition; for by Carmen we are not to understand a single verse, but a poem, whether it be an Epigram, Ode, Epistle, or any other sort. When only one sort of verse is used throughout the ode or poem, such an ode, &c. is called Monocōlos; when several sorts, Polycolos, or, more precisely, if there are two sorts of verse in a poem, it is styled Dicolos: if three, Tricōlos; if four, Tetracolos. There is no instance of the last (Tetracolos) in Horace; and no farther notice will be taken of it here. When the Stanza or Strophé is composed of two verses, it denominates the ode Distrophos; when of three, Tristrophos; when of four, Tetrastrophos; beyond which the Latin stanza should not go, Catullus only having written one of five (Juliae et Manlii Epithala mium) and that not entirely consistent with itself, the stanza being for the most part, but sometimes not, composed of five Pherecratian Trimeters, of which the first four are irregular, having a Dactylic cadence, and the fifth more exact. By a complex use of these terms, the ode is Dicolos Distrophos, when in a stanza there are two verses of different kinds; it is Dicolos Tristrophos, when the stanza contains three verses, but of only two kinds, one sort being used twice; Dicolos Tetrastrophos, when the stanza has four verses, but of only two sorts, one sort being used thrice. Again, the ode is Tricolos Tristrophos, when the stanza consists of three verses, each of a different kind; and Tricolos Tetrastrophos, when in the stanza there are four verses, but of only three kinds, one being used twice. The different kinds of composition in verse then, to be here exhibited, are six, viz. VERSE. entes patruæ. Id. A Sapphic. t neque amori dare ludum. ́ ́Id. Iort, Neobule, Liparæ-i nitor Hebri. Id. 54. Ic 53. 55. It. Id. 56. Ista ilico. Hem! 57. I Quidnam est. Id. depol scio. Id. 58. 59. 60. Ter. vero; si porro esse odiosi pergitis. Id. Id. t? Rogitas, qui tam audacis facinoris mihi conscius sis. I 61. m. Ne gravere. Fac, promitte. Non omittis ? 62. tum primum, magnum, at humanum tamen. Id. 63. quid me fiat, parvi pendas, dum illi consulas. 64. ras. Boeth. 65. ri. Id. 66. m Metelli Nævio poetæ. 67. ctus Atys celeri rate maria. 68, æ Catul. cupis ponto ludere longo. Id. 69. genuum volet agrum. Boeth. 70.nina compede dedicat catenas. Mart. 72 t rex Albai Longai. Ennius. 73.1 71 classes Id. mare, cælum tenet astra. A Sotad. Ion. Maj. cœlum, mare classes, area messem. An Heroic Hexam. ODE MONOCOLOs, alias CARMEN MONOCOLON. ? Id. I. MONOCOLOS. us sis. Id. COMPOSITIONS, in one sort of metre, consist more ently of Hexameters, in which are written Heroic is; or Iambic Trimeters, adapted to Tragedy; ons; Trochaics, especially Tetrameters Catalectic, h used by Plautus and Terence in Comedy; Asiads; Phaleucians; and Anapestics; less frequently bic Dimeters; Iambic Tetrameters Catalectic Glyics; Sapphics; and Archilochians; more rarely Pentameters and Adonics. Maj. amb. Tetrameters Cat. called also Hipponactei and stenarii occur not unfrequently in Plautus and Terence. · ey are called Septenarii from their having seven ole feet; and Hipponactei from the Greek poet ipponax. n. II. DICOLOS DISTROPHOS. Of this there is a great variety. The most common are these. 1. That called Elegiac, from e e legein, Gr. To say, alas! alas! this metre having been first, or much used in funeral ditties among the Greeks. It is much used by Ovid, who excels in it. Catullus has some odes in it; Propertius has four books of elegies, and Tibullus has four books of elegies, except L. 4. E. 1. It consists of an Hexameter and Pentameter; as, |