Abstract

(0) 1 12 3 34 5 5? First of all, word-ends are noticeably less frequent at 31 and 4 than at any other of the individual points in the first half of the line.2 Statistics show increasingly high totals for the first four points (1, 11, 2, and 3) and again for the alternatives for the medial caesura (5 and 5-), but at the two intervening points the totals drop considerably. The following, as an example, are H. N. Porter's figures for two sample passages of 1,000 lines from each epic (II. 5.1-6.91 and Od. 5.1-7.176):3

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