Prokeleusmatikos

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The Prokeleusmatikos (also Prokeleusmatikus ; Greek  προκελευσματικός even τετράβραχυς tetrabrachys ) is in the ancient Verslehre a rarely used composite, four-membered metrical foot consisting of four short syllables there, so a so-called Brachysyllabus . The scheme is ◡◡◡◡. It arises from the resolution of the length in a dactyl (—◡◡) or anapaest (◡◡—) to two short syllables; it is not attested as an independent meter.

literature

  • Günther Schweikle, Dieter Burdorf (ed.): Metzler Lexicon Literature. Terms and definitions. Metzler, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-01612-6 , p. 610.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Pape : Concise dictionary of the Greek language. 3. Edition. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig 1914, Vol. 2, pp. 730, 1096.