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The Fourth Foot of the Homeric Hexameter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1915

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References

page 165 note 1 ‘In Memoriam W. G. C. G.’ (The Times, April 17, 1915).

page 166 note 1 Just as Wordsworth, in discussing fourth spondaics in Theocritus (Preface, x), gets rid of two by boldly rearranging the lines so as to produce fourth trochaics.

page 166 note 2 The fact that the diphthong of και remains uncorrepted in some cases in the Bucolic Diaeresis—as, —seems show that a rest after the conjunction is not precluded.

page 167 note 1 Professor Platt (Journ. Phil, xviii. 120 ff.) gets rid of genitives in -ον by resolving into -οο. But see Mr. Drewitt in Amer. Journ. Phil.