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We know that the lyric poets inserted some lines of this rhythm and form in their works, as we find too in Arbiter, for example: The maidens of Memphis, made ready for the rites of the Gods, and againColoured deep as the night, [dancing] Egyptian dances.
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Terentianus Maurus on Metre:
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Now the analysis, which we will explain, will give us the metre in which they say that Anacreon wrote his sweet old songs. We find that Petronius, as well as many others, used this metre, when he says that this same lyric poet sang in words harmonious to the Muses. But I will explain with what kind of caesura this verse is written. In the line Iuverunt segetes meum laborem ( The cornfields have lightened my labour ), the word iuverunt is the beginning of a hexameter: the remaining words segetes meum laborem are in the same metre as
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( You see how the fire of Trivia spins round from her threefold rising,I.e. as the new, the full, or the waning moon. and Phoebus on his winged wheel traverses the hurrying globe .)
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Diomede on Grammar III (Keilp. 518): Hence arises the caesura which Arbiter employed thus:
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( An old woman soaked in wine, with trembling lips )
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Servius on the Grammar of Donatus (Keil p. 432, 22): Again, he uses Quirites (Roman citizens) only in the plural number. But we read in Horace the accusative hunc Quiritem (this Roman citizen) making the nominative hic Quiris. Again, the same Horace says Quis te Quiritem? and there the nominative will be hic Quirites, as Petronius says.
