Parömiakos

The Parömiakos ( Greek  παροιμιακός “proverbial”, Latin paroemiacus ) is a catalectic anapaestic tetrapody in the ancient Greek verse, i.e. as a sequence of four anapastes, the last foot of the verse being incomplete. The scheme is in metric notation :

◡◡ —ˌ ◡◡ —ˌ ◡◡ —ˌ ◠

It is named after its frequent use in proverbs (gr. Paroimia ) and appears as the final link or inserted in longer anapaestic systems.

literature

• Sandro Boldrini : Prosody and Metrics of the Romans. Teubner, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-519-07443-5 , pp. 119f.
• Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 594.