Ditrochaeus

The Ditrochäus (also Dichoreus ; Greek διτρόχαιος ditrochaios ; Latin ditrochaeus ) is in the ancient verse a four-membered verse foot according to the scheme

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The name "double trochaeus" refers to the fact that it corresponds to the trochaic dipody and thus the trochaic metron . It appears in conjunction with other kola and as a clause in rhetoric .

In the 19th century the term double fall was occasionally proposed or used as a Germanization , but this was not accepted in the scientific literature of the time, since the Ditrochäus has no meaning outside of the poetics of ancient literature.

literature

Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , pp. 168, 181.

Individual evidence

↑ Johann Christian August Heyse: Concise German translation dictionary of the foreign expressions more or less common in our language, along with the most necessary explanation. Cheaper expenditure for schools and poor businessmen. Bremen, 1807, p. 137.

[1] Johann Christian August Heyse: Concise German translation dictionary of the foreign expressions more or less common in our language, along with the most necessary explanation. Cheaper expenditure for schools and poor businessmen. Bremen, 1807, p. 137.