μηδὲν ἄλλο φυτεύσῃς πρότερον δένδριον ἀμπέλω (Fr. 44, Bergk).
Many editors hold (with Meineke) that the Horatian odes were written in
tetrastichs (2545), and hence that this metre and the preceding were
employed by Horace in strophes of four lines each. Catullus (30) seems
to use the Greater Asclepiadean by distichs, and so apparently Sappho
(fr. 69, Bergk). But as to these points there is still much dispute.
2731. (XIII.) The FIRST ASCLEPIADEAN STROPHE, a Glyconic (2660) followed
by a Lesser Asclepiadean (2669):--
-́ > | -́ ⏖ | -́ ⏑ | -́ ⌃
-́ > | -́ ⏖ | ⏗́ # -́ ⏖ | -́ ⏑ | -́ ⌃
_C._ 1, 3, 13, 19, 36; 3, 9, 15, 19, 24, 25, 28; 4, 1, 3.