^{page 47 note 1} This is intended to mean the first, third and fourth syllables of the foot.

^{page 47 note 2} He refers us also to , Sophocles, Oed. Tyr., 483–512Google Scholar , and , Aeschylus, Persae, 66–116Google Scholar, ‘in sub-stantially;’ (his ‘substantially’ conceals an assumption) ‘the same meter as Horace III. 12,’ where ‘there is no trace of such a law as Horace observed. In Oed. Tyr., 483–496, for example, one strophe only, and excluding some cases that one might question, there are thirteen pairs of short syllables in which the former is unaccented and the latter accented.’ I am afraid these admittedly imperfect analogies from Greek trage-dians will not greatly influence those who reflect how freely Horace deals with the metres of the lyric poets proper.