φαίνεταί μοι κῆνος ἴσος θέοισιν
ἔμμεν ὤνερ ὄστις ἐναντίος τοι
ἰζάνει καὶ πλασίον ἆδυ φωνεύ-
σας ὑπακούει (Fr. 2, Bergk).
Sappho apparently treated the third Sapphic and the Adonic as
continuous; but Horace and Catullus allow _syllaba anceps_ (and Horace
in four cases, 1, 2, 47; 1, 12, 7, and 31; 1, 22, 15, hiatus) at the end
of the third line. On the other hand, both Catullus and Horace sometimes
join the third line to the fourth (by dividing a word, Hor. 1, 2, 19;
25, 11; 2, 16, 7; Cat. 11, 11; by elision Hor. 4, 2, 23; _Car. Saec._
47; Cat. 11, 19), and in a few instances the second to the third (Hor,
2, 2, 18; 16, 34; 4, 2, 22; Cat. 11, 22, all by elision) by _synapheia_
(see 2510). In Horace, the last foot of the third line is nearly always
an irrational spondee.
2736. (XVIII.) The ALCAIC STROPHE, two Greater Alcaics (2667),
a nine-syllabled Alcaic (2642) and a Lesser Alcaic (2663):--
⏑͐ ⁞ -́ ⏑ | -́ > # -́ ⏖ | -́ ⏑ | -́ ⌃
⏑͐ ⁞ -́ ⏑ | -́ > # -́ ⏖ | -́ ⏑ | -́ ⌃
⏑͐ ⁞ -́ ⏑ | -́ > | -́ ⏑ | -́ ⏑
-́ ⏖ | -́ ⏖ | -́ ⏑ | -́ ⏑
_C._ 1, 9, 16, 17, 26, 27, 29, 31, 34, 35, 37; 2, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13,
14, 15, 17, 19, 20; 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 17, 21, 23, 26, 29; 4, 4, 9,
14, 15.