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stealing her
cloak or bracelet. Act 5.2 (753–774):
polymetric song (mostly
bacchiacs) (22 lines) The wife's
father arrives,
walking slowly. He asks himself...
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different metres,
involving young men and slaves; and one each of
cretic and
bacchiac,
involving the old men Simo and Theopropides.
There is also a
section of...
-
positions in
Latin are the
bacchiac and
cretic metres used in
cantica (songs) in the
plays of Plautus. For example, the
bacchiac quaternarius is as follows:...
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customer and send him into the procurer's house. Act 1.2 (210–260):
mainly bacchiac (51 lines) The two
girls come out of the
house next door to
finish their...
- is
found in iambic, trochaic, and
anapaestic verse, but not
usually in
bacchiac or
cretic metres. It is more
common in
trochaic verse than in iambic, and...
-
other plays,
there are no
polymetric cantica, or any
songs in
cretic or
bacchiac metres; in fact only four
metres are used in the
whole play. The four musical...
- the part of Sosia,
makes mischievous comments. Act 2.1 (551–585):
mainly bacchiac, then
trochaic (35 lines)
Amphitruo and
Sosia enter.
Amphitruo is angry...
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metres are less
commonly used:
anapaests 127 lines,
cretics 77 lines,
bacchiacs 49 lines,
trochaic octonarii 31 lines,
iambic octonarii 22 lines, other...
- ᴗ ᴗ – ... Ionic: ᴗ ᴗ – – ᴗ ᴗ – – ... Anacreontic: ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ – ᴗ – – ...
Bacchiac: ᴗ – – ᴗ – – ... Dochmiac: ᴗ – – ᴗ – ... or ᴗ ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ – ... etc. Cretic:...
- only 4
lines of
bacchiacs (Andria 481–84) and 15 of
cretics (Andria 625–38,
Adelphi 610–17);
whereas Plautus has 530
lines of
bacchiacs and 528
lines of...
