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The Four-Line Stanza in the Odes of Horace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

J. P. Postgate
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The Classical Review , Volume 32 , Issue 1-2 , February 1918 , pp. 23 - 28
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1918

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page 25 note 1 For the meaning of ‘biform’ and 'triform see p. 26.

page 26 note 1 If we exclude the carmen saeculare, the ratio is 13 out of 160.

page 26 note 2 I use ‘biform’ and ‘triform’ for the stanza according as it has two or three metrically different components. It will be noticed that both of the ‘triform’ stanzas have a higher proportion of overrunnings than the ‘biform.’

page 26 note 3 This had to be pointed out inasmuch as in the Introduction to Kiessling's Horace (ed. of 1901) it is actually contended that overrunning an argument for a four-line stanza.