...Sapphic and the concluding Adonic,' has induced an eminent modern prosodian2 to entertain the opinion, that neither Sappho nor Catullus, nor Horace, ever...viz. two five-foot Sapphics and one of seven feet (including the Adonic) ; the fifth foot of the long verse being indiscriminately cither a spondee or...

...first, second, or fourth. Hence it has been conjectured, and the supposition is a very probable one, that neither Sappho, nor Catullus, nor Horace ever...consist of four separate verses, but wrote it as' three, namely, two five foot Sapphics, and one of seven feet (the fifth foot of the long verse being indiscriminately...

...eminent prosodiiin (Dr. Carey) to ec tertnin the opinion that neither Sappho, nor Catullus, nor Hor ace ever intended the stanza to consist of four separate...as three, viz., two five-foot Sapphics and one of se«en feet (including the Adonic) ; the fifth foot of the long Vorse being indiscriminately either...