Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, A. A. Howard, Benj. L. D'Ooge, Ed.

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[*] 626. The Odes of Horace include nineteen varieties of stanza. These are:—

Alcaic, consisting of two Greater Alcaics (10), one Trochaic Dimeter with anacrusis, and one Lesser Alcaic (9)¹:—

1. iūstum ét tenā´cem || prō´positī´ virúm
2. nōn cī´viumā´rdor || prā´va iubéntiúm,
3. nōn vúltus ī´nstantís tyránnī
4. ménte quatít solidā´, nequeAúster.—Od. 3.3.

(Found in Od. i. 9, 16, 17, 26, 27, 29, 31, 34, 35, 37; ii. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20; iii. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 17, 21, 23, 26, 29; iv. 4, 9, 14, 15.)

[*] Note.--The Alcaic Strophe is named after the Greek poet Alcæus of Lesbos, and was a special favorite with Horace, of whose Odes thirty-seven are in this form. It is sometimes called the Horatian Stanza.

Sapphic (minor), consisting of three Lesser Sapphics (7) and one Adonic (3):—

1. iám satís terrī´s || nivis átque dī´rae
2. grándinís mīsít || pater ét rubénte
3. déxterā´ sacrā´s || iaculā´tus árcīs
4. térruit úrbem.—Od. 1.2.

(Found in Od. i. 2, 10, 12, 20, 22, 25, 30, 32, 38; ii. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 16; iii. 8, 11, 141820, 22, 27; iv. 2, 6, 11; Carm. Saec.)

[*] Note 2.--The Sapphic Stanza is named after the poetess Sappho of Lesbos, and was a great favorite with the ancients. It is used by Horace in twenty-five Odes— more frequently than any other except the Alcaic.

Sapphic (major), consisting of one Aristophanic (2) and one Greater Sapphic (8):—
1. Lȳ´dia dī´c, per ómnī´s
2. tē´ deō´s ōrō´, Sybarín || cū´r properā´s amándō´.—Od. 1.8.
Asclepiadean I (minor), consisting of Lesser Asclepiadics (5):—
1. éxēgī´ monuméntum|| aére perénniús
2. rē´gālī´que sitū´ || pȳ´ramidumáltiús.—Od. 3.30.
3. (Found in Od. i. 1; 3.30; 4.8.)
Asclepiadean II, consisting of one Glyconic (1) and one Lesser Asclepiadic (5):—
1. nā´vis quaé tibi crē´ditúm
2. dē´bēs Vérgiliúm, || fī´nibus Átticī´s
3. réddās íncolumém, precór,
4. ét servē´s animaé || dī´midiúm meaé.—Od. 1.3.
5. (Found in Od. i. 3, 13, 19, 36; iii. 9, 15, 19, 24, 25, 28; iv. i, 3.)
Asclepiadean III, consisting of three Lesser Asclepiadics (5) and one Glyconic (1):—
1. quís dēsī´deriō´ || sít pudor aút modús
2. tám cārī´ capitís? || praécipe lū´gubrī´s
3. cántūs, Mélpomenē´, || cuí liquidám patér
4. vō´cem cúm citharā´ dedít.—Od. 1.24.
5. (Found in Od. i. 6, 15, 24, 33; 2.12; 3.10, 16; iv. 5, 12.)
Asclepiadean IV, consisting of two Lesser Asclepiadics (5), one Pherecratic (4), and one Glyconic (1):—
1. ō´ fōns Bándusiaé || spléndidiór vitrō´,
2. dúlcī dī´gne merō´, || nō´n sine flō´ribús,
3. crā´s dōnā´beris haédō´
4. cuí frōns túrgida córnibús.—Od. 3.13.
5. (Found in Od. i. 5, 14, 21, 23; iii. 7, 13; 4.13.)
Asclepiadean V (major), consisting of Greater Asclepiadics (6):—
1. tū´ nē quaésierís, || scī´re nefā´s! || quém mihi, quém tibī´
2. fī´nem dī´ dederínt, || Leúconoē´, || néc Babylō´niō´s
3. téntārís numerō´s.—Od. 1.11.
4. (Found in Od. 1.11, 18; 4.10.)
1. Alcmanian, consisting of Dactylic Hexameter (§ 615) alternating with Tetrameter (§ 617. a). (Od. i. 7, 28; Epod. 12.)
2. Archilochian I, consisting of a Dactylic Hexameter alternating with a Dactylic Penthemim (see § 617. b). (Od. 4.7.)
Archilochian IV, consisting of a Greater Archilochian (heptameter, § 622. 1), followed by Iambic Trimeter Catalectic (§ 618. d). The stanza consists of two pairs of verses:—
1. sólvitur ā´cris hiéms grātā´ vice || Vē´ris ét Favō´nī,
2. trahúntque síccās || mā´chinaé carī´nā´s;
3. ác neque iám stabulī´s gaudét pecus, || aút arā´tor ī´gnī,
4. nec prā´ta cā´nīs || álbicánt pruī´nī´s.—Od. 1.4.
3. Iambic Trimeter alone (see § 618). (Epod. 17.)
4. Iambic Strophe (see § 618. a). (Epod. 1-10.)
Dactylic Hexameter alternating with Iambic Dimeter:—
1. nóx erat, ét caelō´ || fulgē´bat lū´na serē´nō
2. intér minō´ra sī´derá,
3. cúm tū, mā´gnōrúm || nūmén laesū´ra deō´rum,
4. in vérba iū´rābā´s meá.—Epod. 15. (So in Epod. 14.)
Dactylic Hexameter with Iambic Trimeter (§ 618):—
1. áltera iám teritúr || bellī´s cīvī´libus aétās,
2. suī´s et ípsa Rō´ma || vī´ribús ruít.—Epod. 16.
Verse of Four Lesser Ionics (§ 609. c.2):—
1. miserārumest | nequeamōrī | dare lūdum | neque dulcī
2. mala vīnō | laver eaut ex|animārī | metuentīs.—Od. 3.12.
Iambic Trimeter (§ 618); Dactylic Penthemim (§ 617. b); Iambic Dimeter:—
1. Pettī´, nihíl mē || sī´cut ánteā´ iuvát
2. scrī´bere vérsiculō´s || amō´re pérculsúm gravī´.—Epod. 11.
Dactylic Hexameter; Iambic Dimeter; Dactylic Penthemim (§ 617. b):
1. hórrida témpestā´s || caelúm contrā´xit, et ímbrēs
2. nivē´sque dē´dūcúnt Iovém; || núnc mare, núnc silüaé ...
3. —Epod. 13.
5. Trochaic Dimeter, Iambic Trimeter, each catalectic (see § 620. c).

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INDEX TO THE METRES OF HORACE

LIB. I

1. Maecēnās atavīs: 4.
2. Iam satis terrīs: 2.
3. Sīc tē dīva: 5.
4. Solvitur ācris hiems: 11.
5. Quis multā: 7.
6. Scrībēris Variō: 6.
7. Laudābunt aliī: 9.
8. Lȳdia dīc: 3.
9. Vidēs ut altā: 1.
10. Mercurī fācunde nepōs: 2.
11. Tū nē quaesieris: 8.
12. Quem virum: 2.
13. Cum tū Lȳdia: 5.
14. Ō nāvis: 7.
15. Pāstor cum traheret: 6.
16. Ō mātre pulchrā: 1.
17. Vēlōx amoenum: 1.
18. Nūllam Vāre: 8.
19. Māter saeva: 5.
20. Vīle pōtābis: 2.
21. Dīānam tenerae: 7.
22. Integer vītae: 2.
23. Vītās īnuleō: 7.
24. Quis dēsīderiō: 6.
25. Parcius iūnctās: 2.
26. Mūsīs amīcus: 1.
27. Nātīs in ūsum: 1.
28. Tē maris: 9.
29. Iccī beātīs: 1.
30. Ō Venus: 2.
31. Quid dēdicātum: 1.
32. Poscimur: 2.
33. Albī nē doleās: 6.
34. Parcus deōrum: 1.
35. Ō dīva: 1.
36. Et tūre: 5.
37. Nunc est bibendum: 1.
38. Persicōs ōdī: 2.

LIB. II

1. Mōtum ex Metellō: 1.
2. Nūllus argentō: 2.
3. Aequam mementō: 1.
4. Nē sit ancillae: 2.
5. Nōndum subāctā: 1.
6. Septimī Gādēs: 2.
7. Ō saepe mēcum: 1.
8. Ūlla sī iūris: 2.
9. Nōn semper imbrēs: 1.
10. Rēctius vīvēs: 2.
11. Quid bellicōsus: 1.
12. Nōlīs longa: 6.
13. Ille et nefāstō: 1.
14. Ēheu fugācēs: 1.
15. Iam pauca: 1.
16. Ōtium dīvōs: 2.
17. Cūr mē querellīs: 1.
18. Nōn ebur: 19.
19. Bacchum in remōtīs: 1.
20. Nōn ūsitātā: 1.

LIB. III

1. Ōdī profānum: 1.
2. Angustam amīcē: 1.
3. Iūstum et tenācem: 1.
4. Dēscende caelō: 1.
5. Caelō tonantem: 1.
6. Dēlicta mâiōrum: 1.
7. Quid flēs: 7.
8. Mārtiīs caelebs: 2.
9. Dōnec grātus: 5.
10. Extrēmum Tanain: 6.
11. Mercurī nam tē: 2.
12. Miserārum est: 16.
13. Ō fōns Bandusiae: 7.
14. Herculis rītū: 2.
15. Uxor pauperis: 5.
16. Inclūsam Danaēn: 6.
17. Aelī vetustō: 1.
18. Faune nymphārum: 2.
19. Quantum dīstet: 5.
20. Nōn vidēs: 2.
21. Ō nāta mēcum: 1.
22. Montium cūstōs: 2.
23. Caelō supīnās: 1.
24. Intāctīs opulentior: 5.
25. Quō mē Bacche: 5.
26. Vīxī puellīs: 1.
27. Impiōs parrae: 2.
28. Fēstō quid: 5.
29. Tyrrhēna rēgum: 1.
30. Exēgī monumentum: 4.

LIB. IV

1. Intermissa Venus: 5.
2. Pindarum quisquis: 2.
3. Quem tū Melpomenē: 5
4. Quālem ministrum: 1.
5. Dīvīs orte bonīs: 6.
6. Dīve quem prōlēs: 2.
7. Diffūgēre nivēs: 10.
8. Dōnārem paterās: 4.
9. Nē forte crēdās: 1.
10. Ō crūdēlis adhūc: 8.
11. Est mihī nōnum: 2.
12. Iam vēris comitēs: 6.
13. Audīvēre Lycē: 7.
14. Quae cūra patrum: 1.
15. Phoebus volentem: 1.
16. Carmen Saeculāre : 2.

EPODES

1. Ībis Liburnīs: 13.
2. Beātus ille: 13.
3. Parentis ōlim: 13.
4. Lupīs et āgnīs: 13.
5. At ō deōrum: 13.
6. Quid immerentīs: 13.
7. Quō quō scelestī: 13.
8. Rogāre longō: 13.
9. Quandō repostum: 13.
10. Malā solūta: 13.
11. Pettī nihil: 17.
12. Quid tibi vīs: 9.
13. Horrida tempestās: 18.
14. Mollis inertia: 14.
15. Nox erat: 14.
16. Altera iam: 15.
17. Iam iam efficācī: 12.