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A lekythion or lecythion, in classical Greek and Latin poetry, is a metric pattern (''colon'') defined by a sequence of seven alternating long and short syllables at the end of a verse (—⏑—⏓—⏑—).〔Dale, A. M.: ''Lyric Metres of Greek Drama''. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1968. p. 20, 215〕〔Halporn, James W., Martin Ostwald, & Thomas G. Rosenmeyer: ''The Meters Of Greek And Latin Poetry''. London: Methuen, 1963, p.23.〕 In classical grammatical terminology it can be described as a trochaic dimeter catalectic, i.e. a combination of two groups of two trochees each (—⏑—⏓), with the second of these groups lacking its final syllable; or as a trochaic hepthemimer, i.e. a trochaic sequence of seven half-feet.〔Liddell, Henry George, & Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', s.v. "" ().〕 A lekythion can appear in several different metric contexts in different types of poetry, either alone as a verse or as the second of two ''cola'' following a caesura. A frequent type of occurrence in Greek drama is in lines of iambic trimeter, the most frequent metre used in spoken dialogue, i.e. lines of the type ⏓—⏑—|⏓—⏑—|⏓—⏑—. These lines may have a metric caesura after the first five syllables, with the remaining line thus resulting in a lekythion group. == In Euripides and Aristophanes == The term "lēkythion" literally means "small oil-flask" (from , the diminutive form of , ''lēkythos'').〔 The term was coined in reference to a passage in the comedy ''The Frogs'' by Aristophanes,〔〔(Aristophanes, ''The Frogs'', l.1206–1249 )〕 in which the two poets Aeschylus and Euripides are engaged in a comic debate criticizing each other's works. Aeschylus makes Euripides recite the beginnings of several of his tragic prologues (all in iambic trimeter), each time interrupting him and interjecting the same phrase "... lost his little oil flask" (), wherever the verse offers an opportunity, which is frequently the case because of Euripides' propensity to use a metric caesura after the first five syllables.〔Stanford, W. B. (ed.): ''Aristophanes: The Frogs''. London: Macmillan, 1959.〕 Below, as an example, is one of the original passages of Euripides (from the prologue of ''Iphigenia in Tauris''), followed by the same passage as parodied in ''The Frogs''. In both cases, the metric lēkythion part is highlighted in green; metric foot boundaries are marked with "|" and metric caesuras with "¦". ("Pelops, son of Tantalus, coming to Pisa with swift horses, married Oenomaus' daughter.")〔Euripides, ''Iphigenia in Tauris'', l.1f. ()〕 ("Pelops, son of Tantalus, coming to Pisa with swift horses" – "lost his little oil flask.")〔Aristophanes, ''The Frogs'', l.1232f. ()〕 (The remainder of the Euripidean passages cited in the ''Frogs'' are from plays that are otherwise lost, so the original continuation of the lines is unknown.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lekythion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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