Recordings
of Plautine Cantica
by Timothy
J. Moore
Department
of Classics
The University of Texas
at Austin
Trinummus 223-243
Lysiteles sings a tirade against Love. He begins with solemn
bacchiacs, but as he gets more excited about the evils of love, he
replaces the bacchiacs with other meters. First he sings a pair
of iambic septenarii, ironically singing a meter often associated with
love in Roman comedy as he rejects love. The rest of this section
is dominated by anapests, a meter well suited to raving like
Lysiteles’, but it concludes with some emphatic cretics.
Text
Recording
last modified 3 June
2010 by timmoore@mail.utexas.edu