Térruit | úrbem (H. 1, 2, 4).
Rā́ra iu|véntus (H. 1, 2, 24).
2656. (1.) Some regard the Adonic as a syncopated catalectic tripody:
-́ ⏖ | ⏗́ | -́ ⌃
2657. (2.) A Latin Adonic should consist of a disyllable + a
trisyllable, or the reverse. This rule did not hold in Greek, where such
lines occur as ὦ τὸν Ἄδωνιν. Elision is not allowed in the Latin Adonic.
Late Latin poets (like Terentianus) sometimes employ the Adonic in
stichic series (2546).