Abstract
Since the present investigation was prompted by and is modeled on Milman Parry's study of enjambement in the Homeric poems x), it will be helpful to describe his procedures and results before I turn to Ennius. Parry examined the various ways in which the single verses are joined to produce the characteristic movement, the brisk pace, of the Homeric epic. His primary interest lay, of course, in the techniques of oral composition and the effect of formulaic diction on the movement of the verse. While such con-
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