Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.34.1, pp. 796-869
 
On Poems: Two Hephaestionic Texts and One Chapter from Aristides Quintilianus on the Composition of Verse
by J. M. van Ophuijsen, Leiden

Contents

Preface 797
Abbreviations 798
Preliminaries 799

1. General

799

2. Place of the subject

801

3. Definition

801

4. Classifications

802

I. The 'highest kinds'

803

(two, with two hybrids: ππ. i / π. 1 / A.Q. 9-13

 

Line ππ. i.1 / In lines π. 1 / A.Q. 9-10

 

System ππ. i.1 / Systematic π. 1 / Out of n metra A.Q. 10-2

 

Mixed ππ. i.2 / π. 1

 

Common ππ. i.2 / π. 1)

II. In lines: mixed and unmixed

819

(two species: ππ. ii: Mixed; Unmixed)

III. In systems

820

(four species, with two hybrids: ππ. iii / π. 2-6 / A.Q. 13-4)

1. Species (ππ. iii.1 / π. 2)

820

2. In a correlation (ππ. iii.2 / π. 2 / A.Q. 14)

821

3. Loose (ππ. iii.3 / A.Q. 13-4)

823

4. Of unordered metra (ππ. iii.4 / π. 4)

825

5. Out of similar (metra) (ππ. iii.5 / π. 3)

828

6. Mixed (ππ. iii.6 / π. 5)

831

7. Common (ππ. iii.7 / π. 5)

832
Further subdivisions announced (π. 5-6) 834

IV. In a correlation

835

(first species: four subspecies (one with subspecies) and two hybrids: ππ. iv / π. 7-12 / A.Q. 15-21)

1. Subspecies (ππ. iv.1 / π. 6 / A.Q. 15-21)

835

2. Monostrophic (ππ. iv.2 / π. 7)

837

3. Epodic (ππ. iv.3).

838

4. Subspecies of epodic (ππ. iv.4 / π. 8 epoedic, prooedic, mesoedic, perioedic, palinoedic)

839

5. In sections out of dissimilar parts (ππ. iv.5 / π. 9)

843

6. Antithetic (ππ. iv.6 / π. 10 / A.Q. 19-21)

845

7. Mixed (ππ. iv.7 / π. 11)

847

8. Common (ππ. iv.8 / π. 12)

848

V. Loose

850

(second species: three subspecies: ππ. v)

1. Subspecies (ππ. v.1)

850

2. Astrophic (ππ. v.2)

851

3. Of dissimilar strophes (ππ. v.3)

851

4. Uncut (ππ. v.4)

852

VI. Out of similar (metra)

853

(fourth species: two subspecies: ππ. vi)

1. Subspecies (ππ. vi.1)

853

2. Undivided (ππ. vi.2)

854

3. In unequal divisions (ππ. vi.3)

854

VII. Additions

855

(three classes: ππ. vii)

1. Ephymnia (ππ. vii.1)

855

2. Epodes (ππ. vii.2)

856

3. Epiphthegmatics (ππ. vii.3)

858

VIII. Appendix: the comic parabasis

859

(ππ. viii)

IX. Epilogue

861

(A. Q. 21-3)

Deviations from Consbruch's Teubner text 861
Index of passages from π and from A.Q. 862
Greek Index 862
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