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The Saturnian Metre
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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The latest elaborate work on the Saturnian goes back definitely to the view that the metre is quantitative in character, not accentual, or halfaccentual. This theory then, which is at the same time the oldest, may at present be considered to hold the field, and the burden of proof will presumably lie on those who advocate a counter-theory. In putting forward such a theory I shall make two, as I think, justifiable assumptions: (a) that that theory should be accounted the best which throws most light on the origin of the Saturnian, and (b) that the Saturnian is an exceedingly primitive metre, and that an explanation of a primitive metre need not be very complicated to be intelligible.
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page 115 note 1 Leo, F., der saturnische Vers, Berlin, 1905; cf. also E. V. Arnold, C.R. June, 1907, p. 100.Google Scholar
page 115 note 2 F. Allen, K.Z. xxiv. 556 ff.
page 115 note 3 For older literature of the subject see Teuffel-Schwabe (E.T.), §§ 61, 62, and Schanz, Geschichte der röm. Litt. i. pp. 14 sqq.
page 115 note 4 I suggest that this word may be connected with enim, ἔνη; cf. Solmsen, K.Z, xxxi. 472.
page 115 note 5 Cf. Christ, Metrik der Griechen u. Römer, p. 110.
page 117 note 1 For an ingenious attempt to connect it with the Greek dactylic hexameter, see F. Allen's article in K.Z. already referred to.
page 117 note 2 Zeuss, G. C2. 938, places two accents on ‘innemthur,’ but preposition and noun come under one accent; cf. Stokes, Revue Celtique, vi. 291.
page 117 note 3 Zeuss, G.C2. p. 938.
page 117 note 4 For an attempt to derive certain Old Irish metres from late Latin metres, see an article by R. Thnrneysen, Revue Celtique, vi. p. 336 ff.
page 117 note 5 Keltische Studien, 2tes Heft: über altirische Betonung u. Verskunst, Berlin, 1884. I have had unfortunately no opportunity of consulting Zimmer's work.
page 118 note 1 Cf. also, H. D'Arbois Jubainville, Introduction à l'étude de la littérature Celtique, and E. Windisch, Táin bó Cúalnge, pp. xl and xlviii.