Sed in aé|dibus | quid tíbi | meīs # n(am) erát | negṓ|tī
m(ē) absén|te, nis(i) e|go iús|seram? # volo scī́|re. Tac(ē) ér|gō
Quia vḗ|nimŭs coc|t(um) ad nū́|ptiās. # Quid tū́, | malŭm, cū́|rās.
(Pl. _Aul._ 427.)
2626. The nature of the second colon of this verse has long been
disputed. Reiz and Christ treat it substantially as above; Studemund
regards it as a syncopated iambic dimeter catalectic (⏑ - ⏑ ⏗ - ⏑),
Spengel and Gleditsch as anapaestic, Leo as logaoedic, Klotz as
sometimes logaoedic and sometimes anapaestic! The view of Christ
(_Metrik_^2, p. 348) seems, on the whole, the most reasonable, though
the question cannot be said to be fully decided. The tribrach is rare in
the second colon, but there seems to be a case in Plautus, _R._ 675 b.
2627. For other iambic verses and combinations of verses, see special
editions of the dramatists.