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The Attis of Catullus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

F. R. Dale
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Extract

I Am offering to readers a version of the Attis, which I read at the Leeds meeting of the Classical Association in 1962. It is composed in the same metre as the Latin, according to the rules (and practice) of quantity in English. The metre is galliambic; the line consists of four ionic metra, the last syncopated or catalectic. The ionic metron, as two shorts and two longs, is familiar in Horace's Neobule

miserarum est neque amori dare ludum neque dulci—

but the first and the last syllables of the metron may be either long or short; this admits the anacreontic dimeter, a favourite variant in Greek lyrics—

super alta / uectus Attis …

Catullus' galliambic consists of two such anacreontics—

itaque ut domum Cybelles // tetigeṙe lassulae [pause]. (35.)

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Research Article
Information
Greece & Rome , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , April 1964 , pp. 43 - 47
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1964

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References

page 43 note 1 Reprinted by kind permission from Latin Tesching, xxx (1962), No. II, 346–52.Google Scholar

page 43 note 2 Odes, iii. 12.Google Scholar