Latin Hymns: With English Notes, for Use in Schools and Colleges

XLIII. Stanza of seven verses. 1, 3 and 5, 6, dimeters, rhym

ing in pairs ; 2, 4, dimeters catalectic, rhyming; 7,

a monometer. Page 192. XLIV. Stanza of ten verses. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6, 7, 8, 9, dime

ters, rhyming in pairs or fours; 5, 10, iambic dime

ters, rhyming. Pages 114, 116, 117. XLV. DIMETER CATALECTIC.—4 trochees, less the final sylla

ble, adjacent rhymes in pairs. Page 156, lines 56, 57; 199, Hymn XIV., 6-9.

Iesu, / pié | dómi ne,

Dóna | éos réqui e! XLVI. Stanza of six verses. Dimeters catalectic, 1, 2 and

3, 6 and 4, 5 rhyming in pairs. Page 92. XLVII. Stanza of seven verses. Dimeters catalectic, 1, 3 and

2, 4, 7 and 5, 6 rhyming; or 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, 6, 7; or

1, 2, 3 and 4, 7 and 5, 6. Pages 135, 136. XLVIII. Stanza of eight verses. 1, 3, 5, 7, dimeters catalectic;

2, 4, 6, 8, dimeters brachycatalectic, rhyming all four. Page 121.

The same stanza printed as four verses. Pages 162, 186.

Quántum | hámum | cári tás || tibi | praésen távit,
Móri cúm pro hóminé || té so líci | távit; etc.

XLIX. Stanza of ten verses. 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, dimeter catalec

tic; 2, 4, 6, 10, dimeter brachycatalectic; 1,3 and 2,4 and 5, 6 and 7, 10 and 8, 9 rhyme; and 5, 6 rhyme

either with 1, 3 or 8, 9. Page 181. L. DIMETER BRACHYCATALECTIC.—3 trochecs. Stanza of

four verses. Page 90.

LI. MONOMETER.—2 trochees. Stanza of six verses. 1, 2

and 4, 5, monometers, rhyming in pairs; 3, 6, iambic dimeters, rhyming. Page 161.

Christum ducem,
Qui per crúcem
Redémit nós | ab hós tibús,
Laudet | coétus
Nóster | laétus,

Exultet coelum laúdibús.
LII. Stanza of four verses. 1, 2, 3, Sapphics; 4, an Adonic.

Pages 31, 74, 76, 77. Same stanza printed as seven verses, page 84. The simplest analysis of the Sapphic is: trochee+spondee+dactyl + trochee +trochee; the Adonic: dactyl + trochee.

Chrístě | cũnctā rúm || domi|nátor | álmě,

Cérně bě nignus. LIII. CHORIAMBIC TETRAMETER (Asclepiadean).—A spondee +

2 choriambi+an iambus. Stanza of three verses. 1, 2,
Asclepiadean; 3, a Pherecratean: spondee+choriambus
ta syllable. Page 202.

Alle'lūša piis éditě laúdibās,
Cives aéthérči, psállítě suaviter

Aʻllē lúiă pěrēn/ně. LIV. CHORIAMBIC TETRAMETER CATALECTIC. - A spondee + 2 choriambi+a syllable. Pages 14, 15.

Squálēnt \ árvă sõlí púlvěrě múl'to.

ANAPAESTIC. LV. DIMETER CATALECTIC.—A spondee +2 anapaests + a syllable; spondees and anapaests interchange. Page 53.

Iam maes ta quiés ce querella

Lacrimás / suspen/dite má tres. LVI. MONOMETER HYPERMETER, and monometer irregularly rhymed. Page 210.

O Dómjine Déjus!
Sperá vi in té;
O cá re mi Iesu!
Nunc libera mc.

Reading the last syllable of each hypermetric line

with the first two of the next linc makes continuous anapaests.

RHYTHMIC PROSES.
LVII. Unrhymed. Pages 20,88 (2).
LVIII. Rhymed. Pages 89, 178, 179, 185, 203.

TABLE OF FIRST LINES.

Meter.
Author.

Page.
XV. Ambrosiani.

42
XV. Sedulius.

59
XIII. Hilarius.

3

XV. Ambrosiani (p. 236). 33

45

33
164
178
22

A solis ortus cardine....
A solis ortus cardine..
Ad coeli clara non sum dignus sidera..
Ad coenam Agni providi...
Ad perennis vitae fon-

tem mens sitivit arida
Ad regias Agni dapes..
Adoro te devote, latens Deitas
Adversa mundi tolera..
Aeterna Christi munera..
Aeterne rerum conditor..
Ales, diei nuntius
Alleluia, dulce carmen..
Alleluia piis edite laudibus.
Alpha et l, magne Deus...
Apparebit repentina dies magna Domini
Arte mira, miro consilio...
Arx firma Deus noster est..
Astant angelorum chori..
Audi, benigne conditor..
Aurea luce et decore roseo..
Aurora lucis rutilat...