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![1234—1235] GALLIAMBIC. HENDECASYLLABLE 84t + 1 + 1 = 6). Sometimes it starts with an anacrusis (| of foot, - ox ^J) thus:— — — and so on. It is then called Ionic a niitiore, the metre of Horace Ode iii 12. Some forms of the measure admit other equal feet, particularly J J J J -v^v^/w^ (2 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 6), and J J (2 + 1 + 2 + 1 = 6), which we may express imperfectly by -^v^-^w. In one such form, called Galli- anibic, is written the 'AUis'of Catullus (Ixiii). The verse consists of an anacrusis, three feet, and an unfinished foot (monosyllable), thus:— super ■— w — w alta uectus Attis cele- ri rate mari- a A few variations occur, for instance in the first (complete) foot of v. 4:— stimu- — w www latus ibi fur- JJ I I I enti rabi- e uagus ani- and in the anacrusis., second foot, and third foot, of v. 73: lam iam dolet quod egi lam lam que paeni- mi I tet In such a foot as -/«/«^ ibi fur-, a reciter would have the choice between three beats {-Id-hU i-btftir-) and two beats {-idtus tbifur-); and in some places the latter mode, with two beats, is necessary, or plainly intended, e.g. v. 91 :— dea I magna, dea Cy-|bebe, dea | ddmina Dfndy-|mi. For music it is a beautiful rhythm, but it is difficult for recitation, and could not become popular in Latin. 1235. More natural, and more popular than any except hexameters and elegiacs, were the Hendecasyllable and the Scazdn. The hendecasyliable verse, as originally framed in Greek, was a ^tiabler' 3-time measure of five feet, closely resembling the Sapphic verse (- w | - ^ | - w ^ | —^^ \ -^), but differing from it in the position of the dactyl, and in certain freedoms of the first foot, thus:— — w — w w — C7 — w w — wairep 'Ap/AoSt- OS KO.- pi(TTO- Catullus sometimes wrote it so (i, xxxviii), but usually (v, xiv, etc.) under](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24750694_0885.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
