^{page 48 note 1} ‘Unaccented conjunctions or particles like enim, nempe or quando are usually spoken rapidly, and do not occupy nearly as much time in pronunciation as iambic, trochaic or spondaic substantives such as domō, bella, bellō. Under these circumstances the particles cannot retain their value in popular speech; consequently iambic particles like quia, ita, enīm, apūd, tamēn, were usually measured as pyrrhics in O. Lat. (R. S. Radford in A.J.P. XXVII, p. 434). But this list of ‘iambic particles’ is open to objection.

^{page 49 note 1} These are the occurrences of enim in other than dialogue-verse:—

(i) Bacch. 1080 //dedi, donavi, sed enim id raro (Anap. tetr. acat.)

Cas. 889 enĭm iam magis adpropero, magi' iam// (Anap. tetr.)

Cas. 728 // enĭmvero πράγματά μοι παρέ χεις (Anap. tetr. acat.)

Trin. 263? (text disputed)

i.e. there is no evidence of iambic enim in Anapaestic verse.

(ii) Cas. 888 neque enĭm dare sibi (Trib. + cretic)

Ep. 94 at enĭm tu (Cretic monom.)

Poen. 1181 // certo enīm quodquidem ad nos duas (Cret. trim.)

Pseud. 1266 dari dapsilis, non // enīm parce promi (Bacch. Tetram.)