Priapeus
The Priapeus (Greek. Priapeion is) in the ancient Verslehre a fertility god after Priapos called aeolian meter , consisting of a through diaeresis separate connection of a (1st or 2nd) glyconic and a pherecratean is sogl ‖ pherin metric formula notation .
He appears in the lyric poetry of Sappho and Anacreon , in comedy , satyr play and Priapea and was copied in Latin poetry in particular by Catullus ( Carmina 17), where he took the form
- - × —◡◡ — ◡— ‖ - × —◡◡— ◠
used, thus a connection of 2. Glykoneus and 2. Pherekrateus. The eighth and ninth verses:
quendam municipem meum de tuo volo ponte
ire praecipitem in lutum per caputque pedesque,
In the translation by Theodor Friedrich Heyse :
I wish
to carry one of our citizens across the bridge, head down and feet after, towards the eddy;
The Priapeus can also be found in Virgil and Maecenas .
In German poetry we find the Priapeus among others, Friedrich Rückert , the it for a ghazal used, so as Reimvers. The first four verses by An J. von Hammer :
Recently on the blooming Rosenhag spoke with an important expression
against the singer nightingale honey collector bee:
You always suck the scent of roses, always scent only the roses,
always taste the glowing rose-lip ruby.
literature
- Sandro Boldrini : Prosody and Metrics of the Romans. Teubner, Stuttgart & Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-519-07443-5 , p. 144.
- Christiaan Marie Jan Sicking: Greek verse teaching. (= Handbook of Classical Studies. Dept. 2, Part 4) Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-35252-9 , p. 131.
- Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 634.