Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, chapter 617

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[*] 617. Other dactylic verses or half-verses are occasionally used by the lyric poets.

[*] a. The Dactylic Tetrameter alternates with the hexameter, forming the Alcmanian Strophe, as follows:—

ō for|tēs pê|iōrăquĕ | passī
mēcum | saepĕ vĭ|rī, || nunc | vīnō | pellĭtĕ | cūrās;
crās in|gēns ĭtĕ|rābĭmŭs | aequŏr.

—Hor. Od. 1.7(so 28; Ep. 12).

[*] b. The Dactylic Penthemim (five half-feet) consists of half a pentameter verse. It is used in combination with the Hexameter to form the First Archilochian Strophe:—

diffū|gērĕ nĭ|vēs, || rĕdĕ|unt iam | grāmĭnă | campīs,
arbŏrĭ|busquĕ cŏ|mae;
mūtat | terră vĭ|cēs || et | dēcrēs|centĭă | rīpās

flūmĭnă | praetĕrĕ|unt.—Hor. Od. 4.7.

For the Fourth Archilochian Strophe (Archilochian heptameter, alternating with iambic trimeter catalectic), see § 626. 11.

Ginn and Company, 1903.

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