“ SAPPHO

The Moon is gone
And the Pleiads set,
Midnight is nigh ;
Time passes on,
And passes; yet
Alone I lie.1

112

Hephaestion //windhenk of Metre [The Loniewm a mujure):
And there are brachycatalectic trimeters, namely what are
valled Praxilleans, which have the first meter ionic and the
second trochaic, such as the following lines of Sappho:

The Moon rose full, and the maidens, taking their
stand about the altar...”

113 Aand B

From a Papyrus of about a.p. 100 fon the Anacreontic
metre]: Similarly with the Praxillean, if you cut off its first
two syllables you will make the Anacreontic ; or putting it
wenerally as in the preceding case (of the Phalaecian), you
will make it in like manner 1f you remove all the first foot?
except one short. Consider the following lines when docked
of their first syllables (—fr. 112 then—):

Both happiness and health . .
I pray I may escape ‘old age], my children;
youth?...

114

Hephaestion Handbook of Metre (the Jonteum a majore):
The Aeolic poets made acatalectic trimeters in two ways,
first, of two ionics and a trochaic, as:

1 Heph. arranges as 2 lines 2 S$. wrote much in this
metre: cf. fr. 113 and Trich. 7 \Heph. 392 Cons.) 3 pre-
sumably -- τὸ 4 the words ‘happiness’ and ‘old age’
were in the part cut off, and so are not quite certain

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