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The Ionicvs a Minore of Horace.1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. P. Postgate
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The Twelfth Ode of the Third Book of Horace consists of four stanzas in this metre, each stanza consisting of ten feet. How these feet should be distributed into verses is a matter of much dispute; but inasmuch as it does not concern me at the present time I shall avoid it by following certain editors of Horace and printing each stanza continuously.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 1924 , pp. 46 - 48
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1924

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page 47 note 1 This is intended to mean the first, third and fourth syllables of the foot.

page 47 note 2 He refers us also to , Sophocles, Oed. Tyr., 483–512Google Scholar , and , Aeschylus, Persae, 66–116Google Scholar, ‘in sub-stantially;’ (his ‘substantially’ conceals an assumption) ‘the same meter as Horace III. 12,’ where ‘there is no trace of such a law as Horace observed. In Oed. Tyr., 483–496, for example, one strophe only, and excluding some cases that one might question, there are thirteen pairs of short syllables in which the former is unaccented and the latter accented.’ I am afraid these admittedly imperfect analogies from Greek trage-dians will not greatly influence those who reflect how freely Horace deals with the metres of the lyric poets proper.