Trithemimeres
Trithemimeres ( Latin caesura semiternaria "three half parts", namely half verse feet ) is in ancient verse a caesura after the third half foot of a verse, i.e. in the second foot of the verse . For example in the hexameter , the caesura here with | marked:
- -. ◡◡ .— | ◡◡ .—. ◡◡ .—. ◡◡ .—. ◡◡ .— ×
The trithemimers usually occurs together with a hephthemimers after the seventh half-foot as a secondary caesura:
- -. ◡◡ .— | ◡◡ .—. ◡◡ .— | ◡◡ .—. ◡◡ .— ×
So also in this verse of Catullus :
- E̱umenide̱s, | quibus a̱nguino̱ | redimi̱ta capi̱llo
- —◡◡.— | ◡◡. — ◡◡.— | ◡◡. — ◡◡. — ◡
literature
- Sandro Boldrini : Prosody and Metrics of the Romans. Teubner, Stuttgart & Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-519-07443-5 , pp. 92f.
- Otto Knörrich: Lexicon of lyrical forms (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 479). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-47902-8 , pp. 242f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catullus Carmina 64, 193.