Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, chapter 627

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[*] 627. Other lyric poets use other combinations of the abovementioned verses:—

a. Glyconics with one Pherecratic (both imperfect):—

Dī´ā|naé sŭmŭs | ín fĭdē´
pū´el|l ae ét pŭĕ|rī íntĕgrī´:
Dī´ā|nám, pŭĕ|rī íntĕgrī´
pŭ´el|laéquĕ că|nā´|mŭ´s.—Catull. xxxiv.

b. Sapphics, in a series of single lines, closing with an Adonic:—

Án mă|gís dī|rī´ trĕmŭ|ē´rĕ |Mā´nēs
Hércŭ|lem? ét vī|súm cănĭs | ī´nfĕ|rō´rŭm
fū´gĭt | ábrup|tī´s trĕpĭ|dús că|tē´nīs?
fállĭ|múr: lae|tē´ vĕnĭt | éccĕ | vúltū,
quém tŭ|lít Poe|ā´s; hŭmĕ|rísquĕ | tē´lă
géstăt | ét nō|tā´s pŏpŭ|lī´s phă|rétrās

Hércŭlĭs | hē´rēs.—Sen. Herc. Oet. 1600-1606.

c. Sapphics followed by Glyconics, of indefinite number (id. Herc. Fur. 830-874, 875-894).

Ginn and Company, 1903.

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