The lengthening of a short vowel by the ictus occurs occasionally in his verses, but almost always in words where it was originally by nature long.
That it would be possible to avoid any collision between ictus and accent, e.
With the Greeks, Romans, and Hindoos the natural quantity of the syllables is made the basis of the rhythmic measures, the rhythmical ictus being fixed without regard to the word-accent.
The conclusion is that "ictus in conflict requires a pitch-accent.
Footnote 1: The metrical accent or ictus was marked in ancient notation by points placed over the accented syllable.
Crusius has been able to restore the rhythm with tolerable certainty, and has made the interesting discovery that in both pieces the ictus falls as a rule on a short syllable.
In the Homeric hexameter the ictus is confined to long syllables, and appears to have some power of lengthening a short or doubtful syllable.
In lyrical versification the ictus does not seem to have any connexion with quantity: and on the whole we may gather that it was not until the Byzantine period of Greek that it came to be recognised as a distinct factor in pronunciation.
The ictus on the first long of the Cretic was probably (at least in most cases) stronger than that on the second.
Some ancient authorities, however, held that the ictus on the second thesis was the stronger.
The ictus naturally falls upon a long syllable (or its equivalent).
In the second half of the hexameter, particularly in the fifth and sixth feet, verse-ictus and word-accent show a strong tendency to coincide.
This kind of shortening is not frequent except in the early dramatists, who often shorten under the verse-ictus a monosyllable ending in a long vowel and followed by an initial vowel (as in the third example above).
The ictuson the second thesis of each dipody was probably weaker than that on the first thesis.
Hence a dactylic word with the ictus on the penult or ultima (e.
The ictus on the second thesis of each dipody was probably weaker than that upon the first thesis.
The ictuson the first long of the bacchīus was probably stronger than that on the second long.
The syllable which receives the ictus is called the thesis; the rest of the foot is called the arsis.
It was essential to the character of the senarius that the sixth syllable, or latter half of the third foot, should have an arsis, ictus metricus, or accent in the English sense.
It is assumed that the element in metre which goes, in works of different writers, under the name of ictus metricus, or of arsis, is the same as accent, in the sense of that word in English.
It is assumed that the element in metre which goes, in works of different writers, under the name of ictus metricus, or of arsis, is the same as accent in the sense of that word in English.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ictus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
