Diphilius

As Diphilius in the ancient is Verslehre one after comedy writer Diphilos called meter referred to that from the compound of hemiepes and Telesilleus exists. The metric scheme is therefore:

- ◡◡ - ◡◡ ◠  ‖ × —◡◡— × ◠

Between the two Kola is dihairesis prescribed.

In metric formula notation , it becomes withdiph abbreviated.

Evidence can be found at Plautus , for example in Curculio

Flos veteris vini ‖ meis naribus obiectust,
eius amor cupidam ‖ me huc prolicit per tenebras.

—◡◡ ——— ‖ ——◡◡ ———

—◡◡ — ◡◡— ‖ ——◡◡ — ◡◡—

literature

• Sandro Boldrini : Prosody and Metrics of the Romans. Teubner, Stuttgart & Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-519-07443-5 , pp. 144f.
• Friedrich Crusius , Hans Rubenbauer : Roman metrics. Hueber, Munich 1967, p. 57.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Plautus Curculio I, 2 v. 96f.