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Updated: May 10, 2025
The metre is trochaic, scanned, like these of Plautus and Terence, by accent as much as by quantity, and noticeable for the careless way in which whole syllables are slurred over. In the former fragment the fourth line must be scanned "Virgi | nes ae | quales | vercor | patris mei | meum fac | tum pudet." Horace mentions the ponderous weight of his iambic lines, which were loaded with spondees.
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