Ithyphallikos

Ithyphallikos ( Greek  ἰθυφαλλικός , from ἰθύφαλλος "the erect penis "; Latin ithyphallicus ) is an ancient meter from Attica that was traditionally used in the chants of the feasts of Priapus . It was already in the 8th century BC. Used and entered Latin literature .

The verse consists of three trochaic verse feet , thus corresponds to the trochaic tripody (abbreviatedtr ³). The scheme is in metric notation :

—◡ˌ— × ˌ— ◠

The Ithyphallikos is abbreviated with ith.

See also Ithyphallos .

literature

• Sandro Boldrini : Prosody and Metrics of the Romans. Teubner, Stuttgart & Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-519-07443-5 , p. 112.