-
different metres,
involving young men and slaves; and one each of
cretic and
bacchiac,
involving the old men Simo and Theopropides.
There is also a
section of...
- (mostly anapaestic,
bacchiac, and cretic). In Terence, 75% of the
lines are iambic, 24% trochaic, and only 1% in
other metres (
bacchiac and cretic). In Plautus...
- is
found in iambic, trochaic, and
anapaestic verse, but not
usually in
bacchiac or
cretic metres. It is more
common in
trochaic verse than in iambic, and...
- ᴗ ᴗ – ... Ionic: ᴗ ᴗ – – ᴗ ᴗ – – ... Anacreontic: ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ – ᴗ – – ...
Bacchiac: ᴗ – – ᴗ – – ... Dochmiac: ᴗ – – ᴗ – ... or ᴗ ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ – ... etc. Cretic:...
- the part of Sosia,
makes mischievous comments. Act 2.1 (551–585):
mainly bacchiac, then
trochaic (35 lines)
Amphitruo and
Sosia enter.
Amphitruo is angry...
-
customer and send him into the procurer's house. Act 1.2 (210–260):
mainly bacchiac (51 lines) The two
girls come out of the
house next door to
finish their...
-
positions in
Latin are the
bacchiac and
cretic metres used in
cantica (songs) in the
plays of Plautus. For example, the
bacchiac quaternarius is as follows:...
- on the ground. Just then
Menaechmus I arrives. Act 4.2 (571–603): song:
bacchiac, anapaestic, trochaic,
iambic Menaechmus I now
enters from the
forum side...
-
trochaic meters, and also in anapestic,
dochmiac and
sometimes in cretic,
bacchiac, and
ionic meters. In
iambic and
trochaic meters,
either the
first or the...
-
Another unusual feature is that it
contains a
short p****age (481–484) in
bacchiac quaternarii and
another p****age (626–639) in
various cretic metres, which...
